title: Triaxial electrogoniometric examination of the pivot shift sign for rotatory instability of the knee.
abstract: The precise nature of the motion of the knee during a pivot shift is of interest when types of knee instability are correlated with specific injuries. Ten subjects with anterior cruciate ligament injuries and demonstrable pivot shift instabilities were examined with a triaxial electrogoniometer to detect angular motion at the joint during the performance of a pivot shift test. By varying the method of test performance and observing the patterns of motion by eye and in the electrogoniometric data, the pivot shift was shown to be a dominantly translational event during nonstressed knee testing and a dominantly rotational event during stressed knee testing.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007593:Joint Instability / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D007718:Knee Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008023:Ligaments, Articular / Q000293:injuries; D009068:Movement; D013314:Stress, Mechanical