Skip to main content
 
Notice: Users may be experiencing issues with displaying some pages on stanfordhealthcare.org. We are working closely with our technical teams to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience.
Stanford Health Care

Thumb carpometacarpal joint congruence during functional tasks and thumb range-of-motion activities.

Thumb carpometacarpal joint congruence during functional tasks and thumb range-of-motion activities. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference Halilaj, E., Moore, D. C., Patel, T. K., Laidlaw, D. H., Ladd, A. L., Weiss, A. C., Crisco, J. J. 2014; 2014: 4354-4357

Abstract

Joint incongruity is often cited as a possible etiological factor for the high incidence of thumb carpometacarpal (CMC) joint osteoarthritis (OA) in older women. There is evidence suggesting that biomechanics plays a role in CMC OA progression, but little is known about how CMC joint congruence, specifically, differs among different cohorts. The purpose of this in vivo study was to determine if CMC joint congruence differs with sex, age, and early stage OA for different thumb positions. Using CT data from 155 subjects and a congruence metric that is based on both articular morphology and joint posture, we did not find any differences in CMC joint congruence with sex or age group, but found that patients in the early stages of OA exhibit lower congruence than healthy subjects of the same age group.

View details for DOI 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944588

View details for PubMedID 25570956