Sentence examples for extension gap from inspiring English sources

A larger cam of the femoral component may tighten the extension gap.

Few studies have investigated the relationship between capsular release around the intercondylar notch and the extension gap.

It is understood that the tibiofemoral forces and ligament balance are sensitive to the flexion and extension gap in TKA (Jeffcote et al. 2007; Gu et al. 2014).

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of capsular release around the intercondylar notch on the extension gap.

Full passive extension in total knee arthroplasty is predicated on creating a large enough extension gap to accommodate any given combined thickness of femoral and tibial components.

Inclusion criteria were posttraumatic and postsurgical elbow stiffness, isolated or combined stiffness with an extension gap of less than 20°, flexion contracture of less than 120°, or pronosupination deficit.

The flexion and extension gaps were assessed, trying to obtain approximately 2 mm of laxity in both positions.

It has traditionally been recommended that medial and lateral as well as flexion and extension gaps are equal.

SNP predictions were then curated manually using BLAST (with parameters match: 1 mismatch: −4 existence and extension gaps: −1).

The boundaries of the rearrangements were further optimized using BLAST (expect threshold: 10; word size: 64; match score: 1; mismatch score: −4; existence and extension gaps: −1) around the 10 Kb flanking regions of LCB ends.

The flexion gaps were significantly larger than the extension gaps.