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SUBMITTER: Tang H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8673979 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Clinical orthopaedics and related research 20220101 1
<h4>Background</h4>Lumbar-pelvic stiffness and sagittal imbalance have been reported to increase the risk of dislocation and wear after THA. One potential way to approach this concern is by identifying patient-specific safe zones for THA components based on the standing and sitting sagittal pelvic tilt. However, there is no algorithm to integrate the standing and sitting pelvic tilt into the surgical plan of component orientations.<h4>Questions/purposes</h4>We established a new mathematical algo ...[more]