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Insole Device That Corrects Ankle Alignment at Heel Contact Passes Feasibility Test in Knee Osteoarthritis Patients

A small feasibility study found that a motorized insole correcting ankle alignment at heel contact was used safely by six ...
Healio

Ankles with varus, valgus or neutral alignment had similar outcomes after ankle arthroplasty

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery showed patients with either varus or valgus ...

Kinetic Chain Analysis of the Ankle and Hip Joints in Knee Osteoarthritis: Evaluation and Intervention Approaches Based on Lower Limb Kinetic Chains

"In the development and progression of knee joint pathology, there are few cases where the cause is limited to the local knee ...
Medical Xpress

Preserving native alignment for surgical outcomes in patients undergoing knee replacement surgery

When performing knee replacement surgery, also called total knee arthroplasty, doctors traditionally try to align the hip, knee, and ankle in a straight line, forming a neutral alignment, rather than ...
BMJ

The effect of osseous ankle configuration on chronic ankle instability

1 Orthopaedic Department, Musculoskeletal Care Centre, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland 2 Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Background: Chronic ...