title: Gait study in evaluation of results in intramedullary nailing for femoral shaft fractures.
abstract: The present preliminary investigation conducted on six adult males whose femur shaft fractures had been fixed internally by means of Hansen-Street intermedullary nails indicated that our gait study technic helps confirm the clinical findings in such cases. Five patients, although their fractures had united and they had resumed their usual activities, were not deemed quite normal as yet and the causes for their gait abnormality were identified in the clinical examination. The gait study technic thus provided fairly accurate quantitative support of the clinical findings.
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005269:Femur / Q000601:surgery*; D005594:Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary; D005684:Gait; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male