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- Title
Foot loading pattern and hind foot alignment are corrected in varus knees following total knee arthroplasty: a pedobarographic analysis.
- Authors
Palanisami, Dhanasekara Raja; Rajasekaran, Raja Bhaskara; Reddy, Praveen Kumar; Natesan, Rajkumar; Sethuraman, Arvinth; Rajasekaran, Shanmuganathan
- Abstract
<bold>Purpose: </bold>Osteoarthritis of knees with varus deformity is associated with a compensatory valgus deformity of the hindfoot and a lateral loading foot pressure pattern. However, whether this abnormal loading pattern is corrected in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is unclear.<bold>Methods: </bold>The alignment and loading pattern of 91 consecutive patients (121 knees) undergoing TKA with pre-operative varus more than 10° were evaluated prospectively with functional outcome scores, static conventional radiography and dynamic pedobarogaphy pre-operatively and 1-year post-operatively. Outcomes assessed were Oxford Knee Scores, American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Scores, femorotibial mechanical angle, tibia-hindfoot angle, hindfoot valgus/varus index (VVI), foot line of pressure (LOP) laterality and peak pressure (PP) at both time points.<bold>Results: </bold>Of 121 knees, 98 (81%) regained normal alignment of the knee and 114 (92%) of the hindfoot. Similarly, PP (p < 0.001), VVI (pre-operative: - 0.29 ± 0.22, post-operative: - 0.04 ± 0.23, p < 0.001) and LOP laterality (pre-operative: 7% medial, post-operative: 96% medial, p < 0.001) all medialised post-operatively. All patients had improved functional outcomes at the knee (pre-operative: 20 ± 2, post-operative: 40 ± 2, p < 0.001) and ankle (pre-operative: 59 ± 10, post-operative: 89 ± 6, p < 0.001).<bold>Conclusion: </bold>The present study shows, following the correction of knee varus with TKA, hindfoot alignment and foot loading pattern are both restored in the majority of patients. TKA offers both static and dynamic correction as seen in the hindfoot and loading pattern, respectively.<bold>Level Of Evidence: </bold>Level III: prospective case-control study.
- Subjects
TOTAL knee replacement; ORTHOPEDIC apparatus; ANKLE radiography; KNEE anatomy; X-ray tubes; ANKLE physiology; FOOT physiology; KNEE surgery; KNEE physiology; TIBIA physiology; KNEE diseases; CASE-control method; ANKLE; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT effectiveness; OSTEOARTHRITIS; FOOT; POSTOPERATIVE period; TIBIA; KINEMATICS; WEIGHT-bearing (Orthopedics); KNEE; LONGITUDINAL method
- Publication
Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, 2020, Vol 28, Issue 6, p1861
- ISSN
0942-2056
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00167-019-05629-6