1 Mid-term functional outcome of a total arthroplasty of the first 1 metatarsophalangeal joint 2 3 Corina Nüesch, PhD a,b , Annegret Mündermann, PhD a,b , Monika Horisberger, MD a 4 5 a Clinic for Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland 6 b Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Switzerland 7 8 9 Original Article 10 11 Nüesch C., A. Mündermann, and M. Horisberger (2017) Mid-term functional outcome of a 12 total arthroplasty of the first metatarsophalangeal joint using pedobarography. Clinical 13 Biomechanics 41:9-13. DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2016.11.002. This work is licensed under 14 a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 15 16 Address for correspondence: Dr. Corina Nüesch 17 Clinic for Orthopaedics and Traumatology 18 University Hospital Basel 19 Spitalstrasse 21 20 4031 Basel, Switzerland 21 Tel. +41 61 265 94 44 22 Email corina.nueesch@usb.ch 23 24 Word count: 2623 (Abstract: 243) 25 26 27 Key Words: 28 Total joint replacement, Metatarsophalangeal joint, Hallux rigidus, Pedobarography 29