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Analysis of wrist bone motion before and after SL-ligament resection

  • Jörg Eschweiler EMAIL logo , Jan Philipp Stromps , Björn Rath , Norbert Pallua and Klaus Radermacher
Published/Copyright: September 24, 2015

Abstract

The analysis of the three-dimensional motion of wrist joint components in the physiological and injured wrist is of high clinical interest. Therefore, the purpose of this in vitro study was to compare the motion of scaphoid, lunate and triquetrum during physiological wrist motion in flexion and extension, and in radial- and ulnar-deviation, with those motion patterns after complete resection of the scapho-lunate-ligament. Eight fresh frozen cadaver wrists were carefully thawed and prepared for the investigation with an electromagnetic tracking system by implantation of measurement coils with 6 degrees of freedom. Electromagnetic tracking enabled the motion analysis of the scaphoid, lunate, and triquetrum bones with respect to the fixed radius in three planes of passive motion. After scapho-lunate-ligament injury changes in the translational and rotational motion pattern especially of the scaphoid bone occurred in dorsal-volar directions during flexion and extension, radial- and ulnar-deviation, and during rotation around the radio-ulnar- and longitudinal-axis of the wrist.


Corresponding author: Jörg Eschweiler, Chair of Medical Engineering, Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstraße 20, 52074 Aachen, Germany, Phone: +49 241 8023876, Fax: +49 241 8022870, E-mail: ; and Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Acknowledgments

This research project is supported by the START-Program of the Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Number 691324, AZ 26/13.

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Received: 2014-11-19
Accepted: 2015-8-28
Published Online: 2015-9-24
Published in Print: 2016-6-1

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