The design and preliminary assessment of a new knee ligament arthrometer

Author

Lin, Chen-Chou ; Ko, Jun-Yen ; Chen, Chih-Hwa ; Chang, Wen-Tung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. &Mechtronic Eng, Nat. Taiwan Ocean Univ., Keelung, Taiwan

Volume

3

fYear

2011

fDate

15-17 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1174

Lastpage

1178

Abstract

The paper introduces a new knee ligament arthrometer with dual functions. The arthrometer provides not only the traditional function to test the laxity anterior/posterior cruciate ligaments, but also the function to test the laxity of the medial/lateral collateral ligaments. The preliminary assessment about the data reproducibility was conducted. It showed that the new arthrometer performed well in the aspect of data reproducibility. Further assessment of the arthrometer will be conducted, and the reliability need to be established by comparing with the existing arthrometer.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; orthopaedics; data reproducibility; knee ligament arthrometer; laxity anterior-posterior cruciate ligaments; medial-lateral collateral ligaments; preliminary assessment; Force; Injuries; Instruments; Joints; Knee; Ligaments; Reliability; anterior/posterior cruciate ligament; arthrometer; knee ligament; laxity test; medial/lateral collateral; parallel manipulator; reproducibility;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI), 2011 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9351-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMEI.2011.6098581

Filename

6098581