The “entlastungsgang”

Schröter, J.; Güth, V.; Overbeck, Marc; Senst, S.; Klein, Dörte; Winkelmann, W.

doi:10.1016/s0966-6362(97)90088-6

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“…This pelvic drop is frequently compensated by increased lateral trunk lean, shifting the body's centre of mass towards the stance limb and shortening the moment arm of the hip abductor muscles, resulting in a typical “Duchenne gait” (29) or “abductor lurch” (28) with the pelvis level or elevated on the non-supportive swing limb. When pain arises in the hip joint during walking, there is also compensatory trunk lean towards the supporting side with significant hip joint load reduction achieved by a combined sideways shift of the pelvis (30). These patterns of hip unloading mechanisms have also been observed in other hip conditions such as Legg Calvé Perthes Disease (LCPD) (31), congenital hip dislocation (32), and the relationship between severity of hip abductor muscle weakness and the amount of pelvic drop and compensatory lateral trunk lean has been demonstrated in patients with cerebral palsy (CP) (33).…”

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Frontal Plane Pelvic Motion during Gait Captures Hip Osteoarthritis Related Disability

et al. 2015

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Gait analysis has widely been accepted as an objective measure of function and clinical outcome. Ambulatory accelerometer-based gait analysis has emerged as a clinically more feasible alternative to optical motion capture systems but does not provide kinematic characterization to identify disease dependent mechanisms causing walking disability. This study investigated the potential of a single inertial sensor to derive frontal plane motion of the pelvis (i.e. pelvic obliquity) and help identify hip osteoarthritis (OA) related gait alterations. Patients with advanced unilateral hip OA (n=20) were compared to patients with advanced unilateral knee OA (n=20) and to a healthy control group (n=20). Kinematic characterization of frontal plane pelvic motion during gait demonstrated decreased range of motion and increased asymmetry for hip OA patients specifically.

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