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The mechanisms controlling and limiting movement and serving to transmit load between the femur and the tibia are discussed. Having accounted for the transmission of all components of force and couple across the joint and noted the load-bearing role of the menisci, some principles which might guide the design of knee prostheses are deduced. It ist shown that current designs transgress some of these principles. An experimental prosthesis is then described, which incorporates analogues of the natural menisci. The possible practical application of this novel principle has been studied in cadaveric human joints and in living patients.
Reprint from J Bone Joint Surg 60B, 3:358–368,1979
Based in part on lectures given to the Sixth Combined Meeting, London, 1976 an dto the Twenty-third Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, Las Vegas, 1977.
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Goodfellow, J.W., O’Connor, J. (2002). The Mechanics of the Knee and Prosthesis Design. In: Hamelynck, K.J., Stiehl, J.B. (eds) LCS® Mobile Bearing Knee Arthroplasty. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59347-5_2
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