Custom-Fit Versus Premanufactured Braces
| Autor: | Stephen H. Liu, Patrick W Cawley, Charles A. Soma, C. Thomas Vangsness |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
musculoskeletal diseases
Orthodontics medicine.medical_specialty Braces Custom-fit business.industry Significant difference Equipment Design Materials testing musculoskeletal system Mean difference Brace Surgery Orthopedic surgery medicine Humans Knee Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Pooled data Anterior displacement business human activities |
| Zdroj: | Orthopedics. 27:307-310 |
| ISSN: | 1938-2367 0147-7447 |
| Popis: | Custom-made and off-the-shelf functional knee orthoses from four manufacturers were evaluated. Anterior tibial translation testing was performed using a pneumatic mechanical surrogated knee. The mechanical surrogate was interfaced with a servohydraulic materials testing system, which applied all anterior/posterior displacements to an ultimate anterior load of 400 N. Comparison of the individual custom versus premanufactured braces showed that the custom braces demonstrated a statistically significant difference for restraining anterior displacement (P=.0001 to P=.0005). Pooled data from all tests showed that the custom brace measurements as a group restrained anterior displacement better than the premanufactured brace group by a mean difference of 0.84 mm (P=.0001). The authors question whether such small, sub-millimeter findings between custom and off-the-shelf functional derotation braces represent any clinically significant differences. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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