Hip pain

Hip pain which would include arthritis and soft tissue conditions around the hip are extremely common in not only the athlete but also the elderly.

Treatment solutions consisting of injections physical therapy and joint implant surgery are commonplace.  The cause or etiology is due to a long-standing biomechanical destabilization of the joint resulting in abnormal wear and tear resulting in degenerative arthritic erosion of the femoral head.  Since the hip joint functions and all three body planes, it is affected by all these planes as the joint becomes unstable.

Frontal Plane
The most common deforming force on the hip joint is due to a unilateral leg shortage. This condition not only adds more impact forces at the hip joint but also can cause compensating spinal adaption leading to scoliosis.

Transverse Plane
Another condition but at least you abnormal wear and tear at the hip joint is excessive limb rotation due to foot pronation. Foot pronation, or excessive collapsing of the foot, lease to excessive limb rotation which can cause abnormal cyclic load where at the hip joint.

Lateral Plane
Another condition that will add excessive trauma and compressive forces at the hip joint results from tight posterior muscle groups in the leg. This condition is known as equinus and results in abnormal cyclic load at the hip joint level.

Wolfes law states that if these abnormal compressive and loadbearing conditions continue for a period of time that there will be adaption and deterioration of bone and soft tissue at that joint level. This ultimately will lead to the intervention of joint implant surgery. Most of the time this is avoidable if hot and treated biomechanically.

Advancements in evaluation and treatment

• Understanding the cyclic load conditions of the hip in all three body planes using 3-D weight-bearing kinematic imaging is vital to the successful treatment of the hip joint. 3DO imaging, (Three Dimensional Orthodynamics), is a new state-of-the-art imaging technology that will isolate and identify complex cyclical load conditions affecting the body.
• Utilizing bioengineerd devices to control cyclic load conditions of the foots interaction with the ground significantly reduces trauma to the hip joint and will stop and many times reverse some of the arthritic damage in the joint especially in the younger patient. Bioengineered devices are a higher level of mechanical control the classic foot orthotics and provided very precise method of control for complex load conditions of the body.

More information about 3DO imaging is available through the following websites;

www.3DOCure.com

www.DigitalOrthotics.com

www.DirectOrthotics.com

 

 

Sciatica and it's ergonomic and biomechanical roots

Sciatica has a very important ergonomic components which are usually missed.  

• The nerve is affected by all three body planes.  
• One of the major biomechanical body planes that leads to the development of sciatica is excessive internal limb rotation created by foot pronation (transverse plane). 
• Another body plane is the lateral plane. When there are tight hamstrings and the posterior Fiock compartment this leads to additional pressure on the sciatic nerve.

Sciatica refers to pain, weakness, numbness, or tingling in the leg. It is caused by injury to or pressure on the sciatic nerve. Sciatica is a symptom of another medical problem, not a medical condition on its own.

Sciatica occurs when there is pressure or damage to the sciatic nerve. This nerve starts in the lower spine and runs down the back of each leg. This nerve controls the muscles of the back of the knee and lower leg and provides sensation to the back of the thigh, part of the lower leg, and the sole of the foot.

Biomechanical and ergonomic conditions can now be analyized using 3-D weight-bearing kinematic imaging, (3DO - Three Dimensional Orthodynamics). Through this static and dynamic 3-D analysis, we can evaluate the forces, and motion including mass displacement affecting limb rotation. After analysis is performed, Custom Bio-Engineered Devices are made to control precisely the excessive limb rotation that is affecting the sciatic nerve.

To learn more about 3-D weight-bearing kinematic imaging and bioengineer devices go to the following websites;

 www.3DOCure.com

www.DigitalOrthotics.com

www.DirectOrthotics.com

 

 

 

3DO Imaging Workstation

 

 

 

 

Pelvic Imaging

Low Back Pain

Low back pain is one of the most common conditions seen in Orthopedics. The treatment varies substantially depending on who you see.

• Most back pain is due to a cumulative trauma from loadbearing forces affecting the body as we walk and stand and work and play.
• The Spine is affected by all three body planes and for successful treatment, all body planes need to be evaluated and treated,
• Understanding the loadbearing conditions that caused spinal pain is vital in the successful treatment of the condition.

Advancements in medical imaging has substantially improved our understanding of the complex factors that create not only spinal pain but pelvic hip knee and limb pain.

3DO imaging, (3D weight-bearing kinematic imaging), represents the latest advancements in medical imaging to understand simple to complex cyclic load conditions of the body interacting with the ground.

Bioengineered Devices represent a new and more advanced and precise method to controlling the body's interaction with reactive ground forces.

 

 

Digital orthotics Incorporated, (www.digitalorthotics.com), manufacturers and developers of the 3DO imaging technology, provides its intellectual developments to physicians hospitals rehabilitation centers and retail facilities throughout United States Canada and Asia.

To learn more visit the following websites;

 www.3DOCure.com
www.DigitalOrthotics.com
www.DirectOrthotics.com

 

Spinal Pain

Lumbar
 

Thorasic Spinal



 

 3DO Imaging