TY - JOUR A1 - Ehrig, Rainald A1 - Taylor, William R. A1 - Duda, Georg A1 - Heller, Markus O. T1 - A Survey for Formal Methods for Determining Functional Joint Axes JF - Journal of Biomechanics Y1 - 2007 SP - 2150 EP - 2157 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kratzenstein, Stefan A1 - Heller, Markus O. A1 - Ehrig, Rainald A1 - Wassilew, Georgi A1 - Duda, Georg A1 - Taylor, William R. T1 - A new approach for optimally reducing skin marker artifact allows determination of the hip joint center within 3mm T2 - Transactions Vol. 35, 2010 Annual Meeting of the Orthopedic Society Y1 - 2010 CY - New Orleans ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kornaropoulos, Evgenios I. A1 - Taylor, William R. A1 - Duda, Georg A1 - Ehrig, Rainald A1 - Matziolis, Georg A1 - Müller, Michael A1 - Wassilew, Georgi A1 - Asbach, Patrick A1 - Perka, Carsten A1 - Heller, Markus O. T1 - An imageless method to quantify the mechanical femoral-tibial angle based on the functional determination of joint centers and axes T2 - Annual meeting of the ESMAC 2009 Y1 - 2009 CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kornaropoulos, Evgenios I. A1 - Taylor, William R. A1 - Duda, Georg A1 - Ehrig, Rainald A1 - Matziolis, Georg A1 - Müller, Michael A1 - Wassilew, Georgi A1 - Asbach, Patrick A1 - Perka, Carsten A1 - Heller, Markus O. T1 - Frontal plane alignment: An imageless method to predict the mechanical femoral–tibial angle (mFTA) based on functional determination of joint centres and axes JF - Gait & Posture Y1 - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.10.006 VL - 31 IS - 2 SP - 204 EP - 208 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Boeth, Heide A1 - Biesen, Robert A1 - Hollnagel, Jeremias A1 - Herrmann, Sandra A1 - Ehrig, Rainald A1 - Pelli, Lorenzo A1 - Taylor, William R. A1 - Duda, Georg A1 - Buttgereit, Frank T1 - Quantification of morning stiffness to assess disease activity and treatment effects in rheumatoid arthritis JF - Rheumatology N2 - Objectives The clinical parameter “morning stiffness” is widely used to assess the status of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but its accurate quantitative assessment in a clinical setting has not yet been successful. This lack of individual quantification limits both personalized medication and efficacy evaluation in the treatment of RA. Methods We have developed a novel technology to assess passive resistance of the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) III joint (stiffness) and its Passive Range of Motion (PRoM). Within this pilot study, nineteen female postmenopausal RA patients and nine healthy controls were examined in the evening as well as in the morning of the following day. To verify the specificity of the biomechanical quantification, eleven patients with RA were assessed both prior to and ∼3 h after glucocorticoid therapy. Results While the healthy controls showed only minor changes between afternoon and morning, in RA patients mean±SD PRoM decreased significantly by 18 ± 22% and stiffness increased significantly by 20 ± 18% in the morning compared with the previous afternoon. We found a significant positive correlation between RA activity and biomechanical measures. Glucocorticoids significantly increased mean PRoM by 16 ± 11% and reduced mean stiffness by 23 ± 22%. Conclusion This technology allowed mechanical stiffness to be quantified in MCP joints, and has demonstrated high sensitivity in respect to disease status as well as medication effect in RA patients. Such non-invasive, low risk, and rapid assessment of biomechanical joint stiffness opens a novel avenue for judging therapy efficacy in patients with RA, and potentially also in other non-RA inflammatory joint diseases. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keab323 VL - 60 IS - 11 SP - 5282 EP - 5291 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Alves, Sónia A1 - Ehrig, Rainald A1 - Raffalt, Peter C. A1 - Bender, Alwina A1 - Duda, Georg A1 - Agres, Alison N. T1 - Quantifying Asymmetry in Gait: A Weighted Universal Symmetry Index to Evaluate 3D Ground Reaction Forces JF - Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology N2 - Though gait asymmetry is used as a metric of functional recovery in clinical rehabilitation, there is no consensus on an ideal method for its evaluation. Various methods have been proposed but are limited in scope, as they can often use only positive signals or discrete values extracted from time-scale data as input. By defining five symmetry axioms, a framework for benchmarking existing methods was established and a new method was described here for the first time: the weighted universal symmetry index (wUSI), which overcomes limitations of other methods. Both existing methods and the wUSI were mathematically compared to each other and in respect to their ability to fulfill the proposed symmetry axioms. Eligible methods that fulfilled these axioms were then applied using both discrete and continuous approaches to ground reaction force (GRF) data collected from healthy gait, both with and without artificially induced asymmetry using a single instrumented elbow crutch. The wUSI with a continuous approach was the only symmetry method capable of determining GRF asymmetries in different walking conditions in all three planes of motion. When used with a continuous approach, the wUSI method was able to detect asymmetries while avoiding artificial inflation, a common problem reported in other methods. In conclusion, the wUSI is proposed as a universal method to quantify three-dimensional GRF asymmetries, which may also be expanded to other biomechanical signals. Y1 - 2020 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Krämer, Martin A1 - Herrmann, Karl-Heinz A1 - Boeth, Heide A1 - Tycowicz, Christoph von A1 - König, Christian A1 - Zachow, Stefan A1 - Ehrig, Rainald A1 - Hege, Hans-Christian A1 - Duda, Georg A1 - Reichenbach, Jürgen T1 - Measuring 3D knee dynamics using center out radial ultra-short echo time trajectories with a low cost experimental setup T2 - ISMRM (International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine), 23rd Annual Meeting 2015, Toronto, Canada Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Boeth, Heide A1 - Duda, Georg A1 - Hinzmann, Daniel A1 - Taylor, William R. A1 - Ehrig, Rainald A1 - Witaschek, Tom A1 - Buttgereit, Frank T1 - Objektive Quantifizierung der Morgensteifigkeit als Parameter für rheumatoide Arthritis im Metacarpophalangealgelenk T2 - 9. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Biomechanik (DGfB), Bonn Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Boeth, Heide A1 - Duda, Georg A1 - Hinzmann, Daniel A1 - Hermann, Sandra A1 - Taylor, William R. A1 - Ehrig, Rainald A1 - Witaschek, Tom A1 - Buttgereit, Frank T1 - A Novel Approach to Quantify Morning Stiffness in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis JF - Annual European Congress of Rheumatology, EULAR 2015, Rome Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kornaropoulos, Evgenios I. A1 - Taylor, William R. A1 - Duda, Georg A1 - Ehrig, Rainald A1 - Heller, Markus O. T1 - Frontal plane lower limb alignment using functionally determined joint centers and axes T2 - International Conference on Computational Bioengineering Y1 - 2009 ER -