Frontal plane knee alignment mediates the effect of frontal plane rearfoot motion on knee joint load distribution during walking in people with medial knee osteoarthritis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the nature of differences in the relationship between frontal plane rearfoot kinematics and knee adduction moment (KAM) magnitudes.

Design

Cross-sectional study resulting from a combination of overground walking biomechanics data obtained from participants with medial tibiofemoral osteoarthritis at two separate sites. Statistical models were created to examine the relationship between minimum frontal plane rearfoot angle (negative values = eversion) and different measures of the KAM, including examination of confounding, mediation, and effect modification from knee pain, radiographic disease severity, static rearfoot alignment, and frontal plane knee angle.

Results

Bivariable relationships between minimum frontal plane rearfoot angle and the KAM s

SUBMITTER: Hunt MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11660847 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature