A Comparison between the Kinematic Effects of Knee Orthosis and Ankle-Foot Orthosis in Knee Varus Alignment
AUTHORS
Sol Rim Kim,Dept. of Rehabilitation Science Graduate School, Hanseo University, Korea
Jang Hwan Kim,Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Welfare Technology, Hanseo University, Korea
Kang Seong Lee,Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Welfare Technology, Hanseo University, Korea
ABSTRACT
This study aimed to compare the effects of a knee brace and ankle-foot orthosis on knee osteoarthritis. The study included 13 adult subjects with a knee varus exceeding 50 mm between the medial epicondyles of the femurs. Each subject participated in 3 walking conditions. In this study, only the knee orthosis reduced knee varus angle in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Therefore, we expect that newly applied ankle-foot orthosis will increase the diversity of conservative treatments for knee osteoarthritis, along with typically used conventional knee orthosis.
KEYWORDS
Knee orthosis, Ankle-foot orthosis, Varus knee, Kinematic, Osteoarthritis
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