Impaired patient-reported outcomes but preserved gait patterns 5-15 years after acetabular fracture compared with healthy controls.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Little is known about the long-term subjective patient experience after acetabular fracture and its relationship with changes in gait patterns. Worse outcomes were hypothesized compared with healthy control participants.

Methods

Patient-Reported Outcome Measure Information System (PROMIS) questionnaires and treadmill-based gait analyses were conducted. Twenty parameters derived from the ground-reaction force curve were analysed. One-way ANOVA, Mann‒Whitney U tests, and regression statistics were used to assess differences between patients and controls (26 participants) and correlations between PROMIS scores and gait parameters.

Results

Twenty-six patients (19 men and 7 women, 52.09 ± 12.77 years) with previous acetabular fracture an average of 9.90 ± 2.97

SUBMITTER: Fensel-Merz S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12852339 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature