...Alexandre Galley; Samira Vakili; Ilya Borukhov; Brent Lanting; Stephen J. Piazza; Ryan Willing Total knee replacement (TKR) failure, low patient satisfaction and high revision surgery rates may stem from insufficient preclinical testing. Conventional joint motion simulators for preclinical testing...

... of this study was the use of simple one-dimensional springs to represent complex three-dimensional ligaments, and that wrapping of ligaments around other structures is not considered. This simplification is embedded in how the commercially available joint motion simulator has been designed to represent virtual...

... different circumstances requires further investigation. The preclinical testing of prosthesis components on joint motion simulators is useful for quantifying how design changes affect joint stability. However, this type of testing may not be clinically relevant because surrounding ligaments are either...

... ligament envelopes as a more realistic representation of soft tissue constraint around TKA joints is a valuable approach for obtaining clinically relevant kinematics when testing TKA components on joint motion simulators. e-mail:  svakili4@uwo.ca e-mail:  brent.lanting@lhsc.on.ca e-mail:  agetgoo...