Open AccessHow well can skin marker analysis detect the kinematics of a total ankle arthroplasty? ‐ a comparison to videofluoroscopy
Author(s) -
List Renate,
Gerber Hans,
Foresti Mauro,
Lorenzetti Silvio,
Rippstein Pascal,
Stüssi Edgar
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of foot and ankle research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.763
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 1757-1146
DOI - 10.1186/1757-1146-5-s1-o35
Subject(s) - medicine , kinematics , ankle , physical medicine and rehabilitation , surgery , classical mechanics , physics
Background Previous in vivo studies on total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) kinematics were mainly performed using skin marker analysis, which has the drawback of skin movement artefacts [1]. A further limitation is the inaccessibility of the talus for attaching markers, thus the impossibility to distinguish tibiotalar from subtalar motion. So far it is not known how well skin marker analysis detects the kinematics of the TAA.