Immediate effects of an elastic knee sleeve on frontal plane gait biomechanics in knee osteoarthritis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Osteoarthritis of the knee affects millions of people. Elastic knee sleeves aim at relieving symptoms. While symptomatic improvements have been demonstrated as a consequence of elastic knee sleeves, evidence for biomechanical alterations only exists for the sagittal plane. We therefore asked what effect an elastic knee sleeve would have on frontal plane gait biomechanics.

Methods

18 subjects (8 women, 10 men) with osteoarthritis of the medial tibiofemoral joint walked over ground with and without an elastic knee sleeve. Kinematics and forces were recorded and joint moments were calculated using an inverse dynamics approach. Conditions with sleeve and without sleeve were compared with paired t-Tests.

Results

With the sleeve, knee adduction angle at ground

SUBMITTER: Schween R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4306516 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature