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Table 2 Contact pressure measures at each of the knee joint angular positions

From: Can mobile-bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty achieve natural gap-balancing? An observational study with a novel pressure sensor

Flexion

Pressure (N)

Total (n = 30)

3-mm bearing group (n = 22)

Non-3-mm bearing group (n = 8)

P value

26.8 (20.5,45.2)

28.3 (21.9, 60.7)

25.6 (20.1, 31.7)

0.360

20°

22.1 (16.6, 37.5)

22.1 (18.2, 40.9)

18.7 (13.7, 27.7)

0.113

45°

18.7 (13.6, 29.0)

21.9 (13.6, 29.3)

18.2 (16.2, 24.5)

0.542

90°

8.4 (4.1, 15.0)

10.5 (4.8, 15.6)

6.1 (3.8, 8.7)

0.223

110°

9.7 (4.6, 12.6)

10.2 (5.0, 13.1)

7.2 (3.8, 10.9)

0.425

E-FPD

14.9 (8.9, 24.6)

14.8 (8.5, 33.0)

10.8 (8.2, 16.8)

0.291

  1. P value: 3-mm bearing group compared with the non-3-mm bearing group