51. Effect of Kinematics on the Wear Rate of the Patella Femoral Artificial Joint
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Louise M. Jennings, Raman Maiti, John Fisher, Zhongmin Jin, and Liam Rowley
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Orthodontics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Materials science ,Wear simulation ,Total knee replacement ,medicine ,Six degrees of freedom ,Artificial joints ,Patella ,Kinematics ,Joint (geology) ,Surgery - Abstract
Total knee replacements (TKR) have been used for the past four decades [1]. Conventional knee (tibiofemoral) wear simulators have been used to facilitate improvements in the design of TKRs [2]. This, along with surgical improvements has caused the success rate of implants to increase to 97% over a period of ten years [3, 4, and 5]. However the decision to resurface the patella still remains an issue [6, 7]. Research has been performed into the in vitro wear simulation of the patella femoral joint (PFJ) [8, 9, and 10] but to date none of these simulations have employed all six degrees of freedom (DOF).Copyright © 2011 by ASME
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- 2011
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