Biomechanical investigation of two plating systems for medial column fusion in foot - Fig 1

A) (left): Test setup with a left-foot specimen mounted for biomechanical testing and equipped with five retro-reflective marker sets for optical motion tracking, attached to the distal tibia, talus, navicular, cuneiform I and metatarsal I. The setup configuration allows full radiographic assessment by means of C-arm installed for mediolateral x-ray shots. B) (top right): Mediolateral exemplified x-ray of a specimen instrumented with dorsomedial fusion plate. C) (bottom right): Mediolateral exemplified x-ray of a specimen instrumented with plantar fusion plate.