A Computational Modeling Approach for Investigating Soft Tissue Balancing in Bicruciate Retaining Knee Arthroplasty

Figure 5

Effects of the changes in the reference strains of various ligament bundles on the anterior-posterior (AP) laxity of the joint at 120° flexion. The mean value of the laxity has been shown as a dotted line. The posterior bundles of the PCL and the anterior bundles of the LCL were found to have the highest impacts. (Abbreviations: a-: anterior bundles; m-: middle bundles; p-: posterior bundles. Other abbreviations are described in Tables 1 and 3. For ligament name abbreviations refer to the description of Table 1.)