Residual gait deviations in adolescents treated during infancy for unilateral developmental dysplasia of the hip using Pemberton's osteotomy

Adolescents after pemberton's osteotomy

Adolescents after pemberton's osteotomy for developmental dysplasia of the hip displayed greater joint loading than healthy controls in affected and unaffected limbs during gait

✍ Chu-Fen Chang; Ting-Ming Wang; Jyh-Horng Wang; Shier-Chieg Huang; Tung-Wu Lu 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 218 KB

## Abstract Patients after reduced developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) are at higher than normal risk of developing avascular necrosis (AVN) of the femoral head and degenerative hip osteoarthritis (OA) that are closely related to abnormal loadings. We aimed to determine the lower limb loadings