1.Development of on-line lateral stiffness measurement system for anterior cruciate ligament and its influence on anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.
Ze CUI ; Zenghao CHEN ; Saishuai HUANG ; Hongxin YANG ; Jingtao LEI ; Danjie ZHU
Journal of Biomedical Engineering 2021;38(1):145-153
The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction mostly relies on the experience of surgeons. To improve the effectiveness and adaptability of the tension after ACL reconstruction in knee joint rehabilitation, this paper establishes a lateral force measurement model with relaxation characteristics and designs an on-line stiffness measurement system of ACL. In this paper, we selected 20 sheep knee joints as experimental material for the knee joint stability test before the ACL reconstruction operation, which were divided into two groups for a comparative test of single-bundle ACL reconstruction through the anterolateral approach. The first group of surgeons carried out intraoperative detection with routine procedures. The second group used ACL on-line stiffness measurement system for intraoperative detection. After that, the above two groups were tested for postoperative stability. The study results show that the tension accuracy is (- 2.3 ± 0.04)%, and the displacement error is (1.5 ± 1.8)%. The forward stability, internal rotation stability, and external rotation stability of the two groups were better than those before operation (
Animals
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Anterior Cruciate Ligament/surgery*
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Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries/surgery*
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Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
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Biomechanical Phenomena
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Cadaver
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Joint Instability/surgery*
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Knee Joint/surgery*
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Range of Motion, Articular
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Rotation
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Sheep