Gait analysis at patients with anterior cruciate ligament rupture before and after surgical treatment


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The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is most often structures to be damaged. In this research investigated biomechanics of walking at the timing, kinematics and dynamics parameters for 34 patients which had verified rupture of ACL. The 11 patients were investigated before surgical treatment and 23 after it. Investigations of patients of the first group were made at the time of 1 week to 6 years after trauma of the knee joint (the average meaning is 18 months). The second group was investigated at the time from 1,5 month to 5,5 years (the average meaning is 13 months).

At the current research we did not find any specific for rupture of ACL functional disturbances during level walking compare to normal data and healthy limp. However, we assume some tendency to increase of flection-extention movement at the damaged knee joint after surgery.

This result could give us some basis for revision the term of instability, because we did not get definite symptoms at our study.

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Alexander A. Akhpashev

Federal Scientific and Clinical Center for Specialized Types of Medical Care and Medical Technologies FMBA

Author for correspondence.
Email: akhpashev@yandex.ru

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head. laboratory of clinical analysis of movements (biomechanics), professor of the Department of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine of the Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov

Russian Federation, Moscow

N. V. Zagorodny

Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

Email: akhpashev@yandex.ru

Head of the Department of Traumatology and Orthopedics of the RUDN University, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Laureate of the RF Government Prize in Science and Technology, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology

Russian Federation, Moscow

Sergey N. Kaurkin

Federal Scientific and Clinical Center for Specialized Types of Medical Care and Medical Technologies FMBA

Email: akhpashev@yandex.ru

Researcher, Laboratory of Clinical Analysis of Movement (Biomechanics)

Russian Federation, Moscow

Dmitry V. Skvortsov

Federal Scientific and Clinical Center for Specialized Types of Medical Care and Medical Technologies FMBA

Email: akhpashev@yandex.ru

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head. laboratory of clinical analysis of movements (biomechanics), professor of the Department of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine of the Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov.

Russian Federation, Moscow

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