Objective measurement of stiffness in knee osteoarthritis.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate an objective measure of knee joint stiffness in older adults with and without knee osteoarthritis.DESIGN: Methodological study of the modified pendulum test. SAMPLE: A convenience sample of community-dwelling older adults (n=41).METHODS: Knee angle...
| Publicado en: | Orthopaedic Nursing Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 244 - 251 |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Jul/Aug2006
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106363609&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 106363609 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 07446020 39H jtl: Orthopaedic Nursing issn: 07446020 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul/Aug2006 vid: 25 iid: 4 pid: 5086 pub: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins place: Baltimore, Maryland artinfo: ui: 106363609 2009280518 10.1097/00006416-200607000-00005 NLM16900068 106363609 ppf: 244 ppct: 7 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Objective measurement of stiffness in knee osteoarthritis. aug: au: Burks K Keegan K affil: Assistant Professor, Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri-Columbia sug: subj: Exercise Test Evaluation Motion Evaluation Osteoarthritis, Knee Aged Biophysical Instruments Clinical Nursing Research Convenience Sample Data Analysis Software Descriptive Statistics Evaluation Research Exercise Test Equipment and Supplies Female Funding Source Human Male Middle Age Missouri Pearson's Correlation Coefficient Psychological Tests Questionnaires Research Subject Recruitment Waveforms Aged: 65+ years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Female Male ab: PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate an objective measure of knee joint stiffness in older adults with and without knee osteoarthritis.DESIGN: Methodological study of the modified pendulum test. SAMPLE: A convenience sample of community-dwelling older adults (n=41).METHODS: Knee angle oscillation data were collected with a VICON motion analysis system and were used to calculate stiffness and damping coefficients and measures of joint stiffness. FINDINGS: Although some testing problems were encountered early in the study, useable data were obtained from 29 participants. Within-participant variability for calculated stiffness and damping coefficients was low (0.55% and 8.92%, respectively), whereas the between-participant variability was high for both the stiffness (99.45%) and damping (91.08%) coefficients. DISCUSSION: The modified pendulum test is a reliable method for evaluation of knee joint stiffness. This method can be used in collection of outcome data for future intervention studies addressing joint stiffness. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: equations & formulas pictorial research tables/charts tracings Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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