Patient-specific gait pattern in individuals with patellofemoral instability reduces knee joint loads
Bernhard Guggenberger, Brian Horsak, Andreas Habersack, Annika Kruse, Colin R Smith, Hans Kainz, Martin Svehlik · 2024
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Description
Bernhard Guggenberger and six co-authors study how people with an unstable kneecap walk, in a 2024 paper. A kneecap that slips sideways is shaped partly by bone form, and patients adjust their gait in response. Earlier simulations varied the bone shape but used generic walking patterns, missing those personal adjustments.
The team captured three-dimensional motion from twenty-one patients and seventeen healthy walkers and fed each person's own gait into a detailed knee simulation. Patients walked with a straighter knee and smaller bending and side loads, which asked less of the thigh muscle. That in turn cut the contact forces in both knee joints, despite equal walking speed, and reduced the sideways pull that can pop the kneecap out. The authors argue gait belongs inside any honest load analysis.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Bernhard Guggenberger, Brian Horsak, Andreas Habersack, Annika Kruse, Colin R Smith, Hans Kainz, Martin Svehlik |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |