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Predicting the location of the hip joint centres, impact of age group and sex

Hara, R; McGinley, J; Briggs, C; Baker, RJ; Sangeux, M

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R Hara

J McGinley

C Briggs

RJ Baker

M Sangeux



Abstract

Clinical gait analysis incorporating three-dimensional motion analysis plays a key role in planning surgical treatments in people with gait disability. The position of the Hip Joint Centre (HJC) within the pelvis is thus critical to ensure accurate data interpretation. The position of the HJC is determined from regression equations based on anthropometric measurements derived from relatively small datasets. Current equations do not take sex or age into account, even though pelvis shape is known to differ between sex, and gait analysis is performed in populations with wide range of age. Three dimensional images of 157 deceased individuals (37 children, 120 skeletally matured) were collected with computed tomography. The location of the HJC within the pelvis was determined and regression equations to locate the HJC were developed using various anthropometrics predictors. We determined if accuracy improved when age and sex were introduced as variables. Statistical analysis did not support differentiating the equations according to sex. We found that age only modestly improved accuracy. We propose a range of new regression equations, derived from the largest dataset collected for this purpose to date.

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Hara, R., McGinley, J., Briggs, C., Baker, R., & Sangeux, M. (2016). Predicting the location of the hip joint centres, impact of age group and sex. Scientific reports, 6, 37707. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep37707

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 3, 2016
Online Publication Date Nov 24, 2016
Publication Date Nov 24, 2016
Deposit Date Nov 28, 2016
Publicly Available Date Nov 28, 2016
Journal Scientific Reports
Print ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher Nature Publishing Group
Volume 6
Pages 37707
DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/srep37707
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep37707
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