Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . This study evaluated the accuracy of navigation for balancing soft tissue and flexion-extension gaps in primary ...

The success of a total knee replacement largely depends on accurate balancing of flexion and extension gaps in the sagittal plane. The general technique to achieve this is to resect the same amount of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . This study was done to evaluate the change of medial-lateral gap in flexion and extension after posterior ...

Goniometers are a common clinical tool for measuring joint range of motion. Wearable sleeves offer a novel and alternative ...

We assessed the efficacy of progressive soft tissue distraction using monolateral external fixation in the management of severe knee flexion contractures. We prospectively evaluated 10 knee ...

Flexion or extension of a certain body part typically refers to joints. Flexing a joint usually means closing it, and decreasing the angle between the body parts, while extending a joint means opening ...

Objective: To determine if the combined isometric contractions of knee extension/hip adduction and knee extension/hip abduction will elicit a different quadriceps and gluteus medius electromyographic ...

Flexion Therapeutics' FX006, a sustained-release formulation of the steroid triamcinolone, has been able to deliver drug to the knee joint in people with osteoarthritis (OA) for 6 weeks or more. In ...

Knee flexion contractures are common in certain orthopaedic conditions, particularly in pediatric patients with arthrogryposis. [5] Significant contractures ( 30°) are difficult to brace and may ...