The effect of design variables of condylar total knees on the joint forces in step climbing based on a computer model

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1011-1021

  Yu, Chung Huang ^a   Walker, Peter S ^a,b   Dewar, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Biomedical Engineering Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer knee model; Knee forces; Total knee design; Total knee replacement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MUSCLE;

PATELLO-FEMORAL FORCES;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; CLIMBING; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMUR; FORCE; GEOMETRY; JOINT; KNEE LIGAMENT; MUSCLE FORCE; PATELLA LIGAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; TIBIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 0034935205     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(01)00060-4     Document Type: Article

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