Migratory Polyarthritis Associated With Clopidogrel: A Case Report by Hamid Khederlou, Reza Hassanzadeh-Makoui, Vanoushe Azimi Pirsaraei

“…After six days of taking Clopidogrel, the patient presented to the emergency department with right knee pain. The knee joint exhibited swelling, warmth, and tenderness, although there was no redness or crusting. …”
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Joint Motion Control for Lower Limb Rehabilitation Based on Iterative Learning Control (ILC) Algorithm by Wei Guan, Lan Zhou, YouShen Cao

“…At present, the motion control algorithms of lower limb exoskeleton robots have errors in tracking the desired trajectory of human hip and knee joints, which leads to poor follow-up performance of the human-machine system. …”
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Evaluation of Gait Performance of a Hemipelvectomy Amputation Walking with a Canadian Prosthesis by M. T. Karimi, M. Kamali, H. Omar, Javid Mostmand

“…He used a Canadian prosthesis with single axis ankle joint, 3R21 knee joint, and 7E7 hip joint for more than 10 years. …”
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An Unusual Presentation of Insert Dislocation and MCL Rupture in Unicompartmental Knee Replacement with 2 Years Postoperative Results: Does It Functional? by Ali Asma, Mehmet Erduran, Musa Eymir

“…Firstly, 63-year-old woman was treated with UKR due to anteromedial knee osteoarthritis of the right knee joint. 1 year after UKR surgery, she suffered from MCL rupture and mobile-bearing dislocation because of falls while getting on a public bus, and therefore, secondly, she was operated with MCL primary repair and mobile-bearing change and followed up for 2 years. …”
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Tibia Adamantinoma Resection and Reconstruction with a Custom-Made Total Tibia Endoprosthesis: A Case Report with 8-Year Follow-Up by Gilber Kask, Toni-Karri Pakarinen, Jyrki Parkkinen, Hannu Kuokkanen, Jyrki Nieminen, Minna K. Laitinen

“…Reconstruction was performed with a custom-made total tibia EPR, where both the knee joint and ankle joint were reconstructed. Two muscle flaps, latissimus dorsi free flap and a pedicled medial gastrocnemius flap, were used for soft tissue reconstruction. …”
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Topical Application of Fasudil Hydrochloride for Vasospasm during Soft Tissue Reconstruction Using a Free Flap by Kaoru Tada, Tadahiro Nakajima, Mika Nakada, Masashi Matsuta, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

“…A 36-year-old man underwent preoperative chemotherapy and wide excision for a malignant soft tissue tumor around the knee joint. We planned reconstruction using a free latissimus dorsi muscle flap for the resulting soft tissue defect and selected the peroneal vessels as the recipient vessels. …”
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Physical Therapists in Primary Care Are Interested in High Quality Evidence Regarding Efficacy of Therapeutic Ultrasound for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Provincial Survey by Norma J. MacIntyre, Jason W. Busse, Mohit Bhandari

“…The main goal for using US was to reduce pain in the surrounding soft tissue (n=66) and/or the knee joint (n=43). Almost half (46%) endorsed the belief that US is likely to be beneficial for clients with nonsurgical knee OA. …”
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Design and Analysis of the Bionic Mechanical Foot with High Trafficability on Sand by Rui Zhang, Hao Pang, Haijin Wan, Dianlei Han, Guoyu Li, Lige Wen

“…After analyzing the angle changes of the ankle joint and the metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint, the displacement changes of the knee joint, the ankle joint, the MTP joint, and each phalanx along the z-axis, the plantar pressure distribution, and the footprints, we drew the conclusion that the bionic mechanical foot is helpful to reduce the sinkage and improve the trafficability on sand ground. …”
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Kinematics and Mechanical Properties of Knees following Patellar Replacing and Patellar Retaining Total Knee Arthroplasty by Rongying Huang, Yanqiang Liu, Jun Zhu

“…The present study presented approaches and technologies for evaluating kinematics and mechanical properties of total knee joint after TKA under gait loads.…”
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Lipoma Arborescens of the Knee: Report of Three Cases and Review of the Literature by Ioannis Tsifountoudis, Dimitrios Kapoutsis, Anastasios-Nektarios Tzavellas, Ioannis Kalaitzoglou, Apostolos Tsikes, George Gkouvas

“…It usually involves the suprapatellar pouch of the knee joint. It is not a neoplasm but is rather considered a nonspecific reactive response to chronic synovial irritation, due to either mechanical or inflammatory insults. …”
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Application of Neural Network in the Stability of Biped Robot and Embedded Control of Walking Mode by Jianrui Zhang, Zhaohui Yuan, Huan Geng, Sheng Dong, Fuli Zhang, Jingchao Li

“…The most obvious reduction of the deviation is that the ankle joint decreases from 2.5 to 0.07 when rotating, and the knee joint angle deviation is reduced from 3.8 to 2, which greatly improves the stability of the biped robot’s walking mode.…”
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Effects of Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome on Changes in Dynamic Postural Stability during Landing in Adult Women by Chanki Kim, Seunghyeok Yeom, Seji Ahn, Nyeonju Kang, Kiwon Park, Kyoungkyu Jeon

“…Patients with PFPS experienced more shock on their knee joint during landing than patients in the control group with greater anteroposterior instability and lower mediolateral instability.…”
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Development and Performance Verification of a Motorized Prosthetic Leg for Stair Walking by Kiwon Park, Hyoung-Jong Ahn, Kwang-Hee Lee, Chul-Hee Lee

“…The DC motor system was introduced to imitate gait motion in the knee joint, and a spring system was applied at the ankle joint to create torque and flexion angle. …”
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Determinants of self-care behaviors in patients with knee osteoarthritis based on the theory of planned behavior in Iran by Mohammad Ali Morowatisharifabad, Sakineh Gerayllo, Zohreh Karimiankakolaki, Ali Dehghan, Hossein Soleymani Salehabadi, Hossein Fallahzadeh

“…Introduction: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevailing causes of knee joint pains depending on age and one of the main reasons for functional deficiency. …”
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Therapeutic efficacy of intra-articular injection of human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells in a sheep model of knee osteoarthritis by Jigang Lei, Xingyi Chen, Haohao Xie, Yuhao Dai, Zhongjin Chen, Liang Xu

“…KOA was surgically induced by anterior cruciate ligament transection and medial meniscectomy, followed by intra-articular injection of saline (negative control group) or haMSCs (haMSC group) into the right knee joint at 6 and 9 weeks after surgery. Sheep were sacrificed 21 weeks after surgery, and samples (whole knee joints, femoral condyles, and tibias) were collected, processed, and analyzed. …”
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Kinematic and Kinetic Predictors of Y-Balance Test Performance by Samuel Nelson, Charles S Wilson, James Becker

“… # Conclusion The ability to generate large hip and knee joint moments in the sagittal and frontal plane are critical for YBT performance…”
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Diagnosis and Treatment of a Symptomatic Posterior Cruciate Ganglion Cyst in a Child with Autism by Valerio Andreozzi, Edoardo Monaco, Fabio Conteduca, Raffaele Iorio, Daniele Mazza, Piergiorgio Drogo, Andrea Ferretti

“…Intra-articular ganglion cysts of the knee joint are rare and mostly incidental findings in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or arthroscopy. …”
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Isolated Distal Fibular Stress Fracture after Total Hip Arthroplasty in a Patient with Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip by Tomofumi Nishino, Fumi Ochiai, Tomohiro Yoshizawa, Hajime Mishima, Masashi Yamazaki

“…Valgus alignment change of the knee joint and vitamin D deficiency were considered the main causes of the stress fracture. …”
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How knee muscles and ground reaction forces shape knee buckling and ankle push-off in neuromuscular simulations of human walking by Alexandra Buchmann, Bernadett Kiss, Alexander Badri-Spröwitz, Daniel Renjewski

“…At the start of knee buckling, the GRF vector is positioned near the knee joint’s neutral axis, assisting in knee flexion. …”
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Design and Validation of a Biomimetic Leg-Claw Mechanism Capable of Perching and Grasping for Multirotor Drones by Yan Zhao, Ruzhi Xiang, Hui Li, Chang Wang, Jianhua Zhang, Xuan Liu, Yufei Hao

“…A ratchet and pawl mechanism at the knee joint locks the leg in the bent position, thereby enhancing the gripping force of the claw. …”
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