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 |