Print Email Facebook Twitter Comparison of Two Methods for In Vivo Estimation of the Glenohumeral Joint Rotation Center (GH-JRC) of the Patients with Shoulder Hemiarthroplasty Title Comparison of Two Methods for In Vivo Estimation of the Glenohumeral Joint Rotation Center (GH-JRC) of the Patients with Shoulder Hemiarthroplasty Author Asadi Nikooyan, A. Van der Helm, F.C.T. Westerhoff, P. Graichen, F. Bergmann, G. Veeger, H.E.J. Faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering Department Biomechanical Engineering Date 2011-03-31 Abstract Determination of an accurate glenohumeral-joint rotation center (GH-JRC) from marker data is essential for kinematic and dynamic analysis of shoulder motions. Previous studies have focused on the evaluation of the different functional methods for the estimation of the GH-JRC for healthy subjects. The goal of this paper is to compare two widely used functional methods, namely the instantaneous helical axis (IHA) and symmetrical center of rotation (SCoRE) methods, for estimating the GH-JRC in vivo for patients with implanted shoulder hemiarthroplasty. The motion data of five patients were recorded while performing three different dynamic motions (circumduction, abduction, and forward flexion). The GH-JRC was determined using the CT-images of the subjects (geometric GH-JRC) and was also estimated using the two IHA and SCoRE methods. The rotation centers determined using the IHA and SCoRE methods were on average 1.4760.62 cm and 2.0760.55 cm away from geometric GH-JRC, respectively. The two methods differed significantly (two-tailed p-value from paired t-Test ,0.02, post-hoc power ,0.30). The SCoRE method showed a significant lower (two-tailed p-value from paired t-Test ,0.03, post-hoc power ,0.68) repeatability error calculated between the different trials of each motion and each subject and averaged across all measured subjects (0.6260.10 cm for IHA vs. 0.4360.12 cm for SCoRE). It is concluded that the SCoRE appeared to be a more repeatable method whereas the IHA method resulted in a more accurate estimation of the GH-JRC for patients with endoprostheses. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4ce91f4d-0d11-4df1-9582-c0b9d18c35ac DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018488 Publisher Public Library of Science ISSN 1932-6203 Source PLos ONE, 6 (3), 2011 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2011 Asadi Nikooyan et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited Files PDF nikooyan_2011.0018488.pdf 287.97 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4ce91f4d-0d11-4df1-9582-c0b9d18c35ac/datastream/OBJ/view