Osteoarthritis (OA) can be used as a common name for a group of overlapping pathological conditions when the balance between the processes of degradation and synthesis, in individual parts of the cartilage, is disturbed and leads to gradual cartilage destruction. A preventive approach toward OA helps with a timely diagnosis and subsequent treatment of this disease. One of the significant risk factors affecting development of hip joint OA is the mechanism and magnitude of mechanical loading on the joint. The main motivation for this work was to verify the hypothesis involving a pathologic cycle (overloading - change of locomotion - overloading) as contributory to the development of OA and whether it can be stopped, or at least partly decelerated, by a suitable change of movement stereotypes. Providing that there is a natural balance of muscular action, from the beginning of OA, the development of OA can be significantly decelerated. The return to a natural force balance can be achieved using suitable exercise and strengthening of muscular structures. In order to verify the hypothesis, we undertook experimental measurements of gait kinematics and a computational analysis of the hip joint using the Finite Element Method.

• MeSH
• analýza metodou konečných prvků MeSH
• artróza kyčelních kloubů patofyziologie   rehabilitace   MeSH
• biomechanika MeSH
• chůze (způsob) fyziologie   MeSH
• chůze fyziologie   MeSH
• hodnocení rizik MeSH
• kloubní chrupavka patofyziologie   MeSH
• kyčelní kloub patofyziologie   MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• počítačová grafika MeSH
• posturální rovnováha fyziologie   MeSH
• rozsah kloubních pohybů fyziologie   MeSH
• software MeSH
• techniky fyzikální terapie MeSH
• zatížení muskuloskeletálního systému fyziologie   MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH