Subjects

Six subjects, each with an instrumented total knee repplacement (Heinlein et al., 2007), were measured 5-7 years post-operatively while each performing repetitions of multiple exercises of activities of daily living.

All testing of subjects involved within this project were performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.

The study was approved by the local ethics committees of the Charité (EA4/069/06) and ETH Zürich (EK 2013-N-90) and all subjects gave written informed consent to participate and furthermore for the publiction of their images.

The study was registerered at the German Clincal Trial Register (DRKS00000606) as well as under ClincalTrials.gov (NCT02156011).

In the following table relevant patient information are summarized:

Subject K1L K2L K3R K5R K7L K8L
Gender m m m m f m
Age 69 78 77 66 79 70
Body mass [kg] 101 91 100 96 67 79
Height [cm] 175 169 173 174 165 175
Time post-op [months] 87 84 76 69 67 64
Tibio-femoral angle [degree] 3.0

varus

5.0

varus

3.5

varus

1.0

varus

6.5

varus

4.0

varus

Posterior slope [degree] 5 11 10 7 7 11