Open AccessTruncal Changes in Patients Suffering Severe Hip or Knee Osteoarthritis: A Surface Topography Study
Author(s) -
Vasileios Kechagias,
Theodoros B Grivas,
Panayiotis J. Papagelopoulos,
Vasileios Kontogeorgakos,
Konstantinos Vlasis
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinics in orthopedic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.002
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2005-4408
pISSN - 2005-291X
DOI - 10.4055/cios20123
Subject(s) - medicine , osteoarthritis , pelvis , trunk , sagittal plane , range of motion , surgery , anatomy , ecology , alternative medicine , pathology , biology
Osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip and knee is a degenerative disease with complications, including reduced range of motion and pain. Although OA of the hip and knee is common, there are few studies that investigated if patients with this condition had affected morphological truncal parameters. The objectives of this study were to compare the morphology of the spine and the pelvis of patients with hip or knee OA to that of a control group (CG) and to comment on the proposed mechanisms of these changes and the clinical effects on patients.