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KMID : 1211620120070040433
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Journal of the Korean Society of Physical Medicine
2012 Volume.7 No. 4 p.433 ~ p.442
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The Correlation Between Foot and Knee Posture Characteristics in Knee Osteoarthritis People
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Kim Seong-Hwan
Kim Suhn-Yeop
Kim Ho-Bong
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study investigated to correlation between foot and knee posture characteristics in knee osteoarthritis patients.
Methods: The subjects of this study were 103 patients with clinically and radiographically-confirmed knee osteoarthritis was investigated using the quadriceps angle (QA), distance of both knee (DBK), ankle dorsiflexion angle (ADA), navicular drop (ND). One-way ANOVA and Pearson’s correlation were used to investigate the correlation between foot and knee posture measurements. All of whom agreed to participate in the study. In order to assure the statistical significance of the results, we used for SPSS ver. 18.0 for windows.
Results: The results of this study were as follows : 1) There were statistically significant difference in the correlation between QA and DBK. 2) There were statistically significant difference in the correlation between DBK and ADA.
Conclusion: According the results of this study, patients with osteoarthritis exhibit more genu varus knee posture. Moreover patients with osteoarthritis were not correlation between foot and knee Posture characteristics.
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KEYWORD
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Foot posture, Knee posture, Alignment, Knee osteoarthritis
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