Margit Biehl1, Philipp Damm2, Adam Trepczynski2, Stefan Preiss3, Gian Max Salzmann3,4. 1. Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT, Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Weg 1, 66280, Sulzbach, Germany. margit.biehl@ibmt.fraunhofer.de. 2. Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany. 3. Lower Extremity Orthopaedics, Musculoskeletal Center, Schulthess Clinic, Zurich, Switzerland. 4. Gelenkzentrum Rhein-Main, Wiesbaden, Germany.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Despite practised for decades, the planning of osteotomy around the knee, commonly using the Mikulicz-Line, is only empirically based, clinical outcome inconsistent and the target angle still controversial. A better target than the angle of frontal-plane static leg alignment might be the external frontal-plane lever arm (EFL) of the knee adduction moment. Hypothetically assessable from frontal-plane-radiograph skeleton dimensions, it might depend on the leg-alignment angle, the hip-centre-to-hip-centre distance, the femur- and tibia-length. METHODS: The target EFL to achieve a medial compartment force ratio of 50% during level-walking was identified by relating in-vivo-measurement data of knee-internal loads from nine subjects with instrumented prostheses to the same subjects' EFLs computed from frontal-plane skeleton dimensions. Adduction moments derived from these calculated EFLs were compared to the subjects' adduction moments measured during gait analysis. RESULTS: Highly significant relationships (0.88 ≤ R2 ≤ 0.90) were found for both the peak adduction moment measured during gait analysis and the medial compartment force ratio measured in vivo to EFL calculated from frontal-plane skeleton dimensions. Both correlations exceed the respective correlations with the leg alignment angle, EFL even predicts the adduction moment's first peak. The guideline EFL for planning osteotomy was identified to 0.349 times the epicondyle distance, hence deducing formulas for individualized target angles and Mikulicz-Line positions based on full-leg radiograph skeleton dimensions. Applied to realistic skeleton geometries, widespread results explain the inconsistency regarding correction recommendations, whereas results for average geometries exactly meet the most-consented "Fujisawa-Point". CONCLUSION: Osteotomy outcome might be improved by planning re-alignment based on the provided formulas exploiting full-leg-radiograph skeleton dimensions.
PURPOSE: Despite practised for decades, the planning of osteotomy around the knee, commonly using the Mikulicz-Line, is only empirically based, clinical outcome inconsistent and the target angle still controversial. A better target than the angle of frontal-plane static leg alignment might be the external frontal-plane lever arm (EFL) of the knee adduction moment. Hypothetically assessable from frontal-plane-radiograph skeleton dimensions, it might depend on the leg-alignment angle, the hip-centre-to-hip-centre distance, the femur- and tibia-length. METHODS: The target EFL to achieve a medial compartment force ratio of 50% during level-walking was identified by relating in-vivo-measurement data of knee-internal loads from nine subjects with instrumented prostheses to the same subjects' EFLs computed from frontal-plane skeleton dimensions. Adduction moments derived from these calculated EFLs were compared to the subjects' adduction moments measured during gait analysis. RESULTS: Highly significant relationships (0.88 ≤ R2 ≤ 0.90) were found for both the peak adduction moment measured during gait analysis and the medial compartment force ratio measured in vivo to EFL calculated from frontal-plane skeleton dimensions. Both correlations exceed the respective correlations with the leg alignment angle, EFL even predicts the adduction moment's first peak. The guideline EFL for planning osteotomy was identified to 0.349 times the epicondyle distance, hence deducing formulas for individualized target angles and Mikulicz-Line positions based on full-leg radiograph skeleton dimensions. Applied to realistic skeleton geometries, widespread results explain the inconsistency regarding correction recommendations, whereas results for average geometries exactly meet the most-consented "Fujisawa-Point". CONCLUSION: Osteotomy outcome might be improved by planning re-alignment based on the provided formulas exploiting full-leg-radiograph skeleton dimensions.
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Adduction moment; Biomechanics of osteotomy; High tibial osteotomy; Leg alignment; Medial compartment force ratio; Supracondylar osteotomy
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