1A2-L03 Development of a Manual Clinical Examination Assisting System for Knee Ligament Injury : Evaluation of Estimation Accuracy of Force Acting on Knee Joint

Abstract

The manual clinical examinations are commonly used in orthopedic clinical practice to estimate the state of knee ligament injury. However, the manual clinical examination results depend on a doctor's intuition and experience greatly because they are judged by the feel of the reaction of affected part to the doctor's hand. Therefore, we proposed a manual clinical examination assisting system that provides force acting on a knee joint and a lower leg motion quantitatively to a doctor. This paper focused on force acting on a knee joint. And we evaluated estimation accuracy of the force calculated by manual clinical examination assisting system.