Sensor Assessment of Gap Balance in Mobile-Bearing Unicompartmental Knee ArthroplastyXiaowei Sun *1,2, Qiuyuan Wang *2,3, Juncheng Ge *2,4, Weiguo Wang 2, Wanshou Guo 1,2, Qidong Zhang 1,2,4
1Graduate School of Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 2Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, 3Graduate School of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, 4Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Peking University China-Japan Friendship School of Clinical Medicine
Here, we present a protocol to measure the gap contact force and gap balance in mobile-bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA). Along with the clinical and radiographic data, we hope to determine the normal range of the contact force and set up the threshold of the gap balance.
