A Prospective Functional Outcome and Motion Analysis Evaluation of the Hip Abductors After Femur Fracture and Antegrade Nailing

Abstract

After isolated femur fracture, patients treated with antegrade intramedullary nailing demonstrated a significant negative effect on hip kinematics and kinetics, and this effect was time-dependent. Early postsurgical ipsilateral trunk lean correlated with long-term functional outcome scores; therefore, excessive frontal plane movement during gait in the early postoperative stages may be indicative of a poorer self-reported longer-term functional outcome.