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Biomechanical model based evaluation of Total Hip Arthroplasty therapy outcome
Jörg Eschweiler1, Julia Hawlitzky1, Valentin Quack1
1Department for Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany.
Objective:
Total-hip-arthroplasties are performed to treat patients with osteoarthritis. Surgical planning is usually based on specific radiographs. These information could also be used as data for biomechanical modelling.
Methods:
Models are rarely used during clinical practice. Our aim was to analyze model-based the pre- and postoperatively hip-biomechanic. Pre- and postoperative X-rays of 30 patients were examined by using 4 biomechanical-models.
Results:
The received results showed variations e.g. an increase and decrease of hip-load pre- and postoperative.
Conclusion:
With the data of these models it would be possible to integrate the amplitude and orientation of the hip-joint-resultant-force into the therapeutical approach.