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Static Frontal Plane Tibiofemoral Alignments And Their Effects On Knee Biomechanics During Level Walking And Stair Ascent Tasks, Hunter Jared Bennett
Static Frontal Plane Tibiofemoral Alignments And Their Effects On Knee Biomechanics During Level Walking And Stair Ascent Tasks, Hunter Jared Bennett
Doctoral Dissertations
Knee osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease that can onset due to abnormal knee adduction moments (KAMs), which are related to frontal plane knee joint alignment. Gait modifications including toe-in (TI) and wider step widths have been proposed as individual intervention strategies, but have not been previously combined, to reduce abnormal frontal plane loading in healthy and osteoarthritic populations. Study One investigated clinical based measurements to predict radiographic frontal plane knee joint alignment, measured as the mechanical axis angle (MA). Study Two compared three different hip joint center estimation methods on MA predictions using three-dimensional motion capture. Study Three and …