Aranzulla P J, Muckle D S, Cunningham J L
Centre for Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Durham, UK.
Med Eng Phys. 1998 Oct;20(7):543-8. doi: 10.1016/s1350-4533(98)00061-7.
An ambulatory monitoring system has been developed to measure the weight-bearing achieved by a patient on their fractured leg. The system is lightweight, portable, and can monitor weight-bearing continuously over an extended period of time. In addition to mean weight-bearing, the system can also determine temporal parameters associated with the patients' gait. This system was used to measure the weight-bearing achieved during the course of fracture healing in a small number of patients being treated by a variety of fixation methods for a tibial fracture. In general, weight-bearing was observed to increase with time post fracture, and the fixation method employed appeared to influence the rate of increase of loading of the fractured limb, more rigid methods of fixation enabling full-weight-bearing to be achieved sooner.
已经开发出一种动态监测系统，用于测量患者骨折腿的负重情况。该系统重量轻、便于携带，并且可以在较长时间内连续监测负重情况。除了平均负重外，该系统还可以确定与患者步态相关的时间参数。该系统用于测量少数接受各种胫骨骨折固定方法治疗的患者在骨折愈合过程中的负重情况。一般来说，观察到负重随骨折后的时间增加，并且所采用的固定方法似乎会影响骨折肢体负荷增加的速率，更坚固的固定方法能够使更早实现完全负重。
