TY - JOUR
T1 - Screw home motion after total knee replacement
AU - Ishii, Yoshinori
AU - Terajima, Kazuhiro
AU - Koga, Yoshio
AU - Bechtold, Joan E.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of muscle force and the posterior cruciate ligament on screw home motion in patients with total knee replacement in a posterior cruciate ligament retaining prosthesis (10 knees) and a posterior cruciate ligament substituting prosthesis (10 knees). Screw home motion was examined with only active extension and with two types of externally loaded active extension (2 kg and body weight). Screw home motion was measured with a 6 of freedom electrogoniometer (instrumented spatial linkage). Retaining the posterior cruciate ligament maintained screw home motion, with and without external load to muscles, whereas substituting the posterior cruciate ligament maintained screw home motion only under the full external load of body weight. This was not seen with a 2-kg external load. As for the normal knee, it appears that screw home motion of a prosthetic knee is influenced, not only by the presence of ligamentous structures, but also by the activity of the muscles. The activity of the muscles may have a much greater effect on screw home motion with currently used prosthetic designs than does the presence of ligamentous structures.
AB - The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of muscle force and the posterior cruciate ligament on screw home motion in patients with total knee replacement in a posterior cruciate ligament retaining prosthesis (10 knees) and a posterior cruciate ligament substituting prosthesis (10 knees). Screw home motion was examined with only active extension and with two types of externally loaded active extension (2 kg and body weight). Screw home motion was measured with a 6 of freedom electrogoniometer (instrumented spatial linkage). Retaining the posterior cruciate ligament maintained screw home motion, with and without external load to muscles, whereas substituting the posterior cruciate ligament maintained screw home motion only under the full external load of body weight. This was not seen with a 2-kg external load. As for the normal knee, it appears that screw home motion of a prosthetic knee is influenced, not only by the presence of ligamentous structures, but also by the activity of the muscles. The activity of the muscles may have a much greater effect on screw home motion with currently used prosthetic designs than does the presence of ligamentous structures.
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U2 - 10.1097/00003086-199901000-00022
DO - 10.1097/00003086-199901000-00022
M3 - Article
C2 - 9973990
AN - SCOPUS:0032943067
SN - 0009-921X
VL - 358
SP - 181
EP - 187
JO - Clinical orthopaedics and related research
JF - Clinical orthopaedics and related research
ER -