title: Effects of ankle arthrodesis on walking: kinematic and kinetic studies.
abstract: We have studied the effects of ankle arthrodesis on the gait of three subjects with special attention to the time and sagittal plane kinematic and kinetic characteristics. Each subject had a painless arthrodesis and no other gait limitation. To compensate for this disability they showed an increased range of movement at the ipsilateral mid-tarsal, knee and hip joints, and required greater than normal resuftan joint moments to be generated at the ipsilateral knee and hip joints. The subjects exhibited stride-to-stride kinetic compensation at the knee and hip joints, with associated variability in resultant joint moments and power patterns. However, they achieved a symmetric gait by mimicking ipsilateral movements with the opposite limb.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Human Movement Studies, Australia.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Marshall
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nade