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Volume 08

Journal of Novel Physiotherapies

Rehabilitation Medicine 2018

May 18-19, 2018

May 18-19, 2018 Osaka, Japan

World Congress on

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Physical disability, range of motion and selected gait parameters in patients with unilateral knee

osteoarthritis

Olusegun O Ojedoyin and Adegoke B O A

University of Ibadan, Nigeria

steoarthritis is the most common joint disorder worldwide. In Nigeria, the most affected joint is the knee. There is

paucity of literature on the interrelationships among physical disability, range of motion and selected gait of knee OA

patients in Nigeria. This study is therefore to investigate the relationships between physical disability and knee flexion and

each of stride length, dynamic base of support, walking speed and stride time in patients with knee OA. The participants were

purposively sampled and recruited as they became available. The degree of physical disability was measured using Ibadan

knee/hip osteoarthritis outcome measure questionnaire (IKHOAM), with higher IKHOAM scores implying lesser physical

disability. Active knee flexion was measured using goniometer. Footprints of participants were recorded in a 10 m paper

walkway. Kinematic gait parameters were computed using the footprints within the central 6 m of the 10 m walkway. Pearson’s

product moment correlation was used to determine the correlation between the IKHOAM scores and degree, each of knee

flexion, between the IKHOAM scores and each of kinematic gait parameters and between range of knee flexion and each of

the kinematic gait parameters. The level of significance was set at 0.05 alpha. Results showed significant correlations between

physical disability and each of knee flexion (P=0.016, r=-0.336), stride time (P=0.023, r=+0.347), stride length (P=0.000, r=-

0.652), walking speed (P=0.000, r=-0.586). And between knee flexion and each of walking speed (p=0.009, r=0.396) and

stride time (p=0.029, r=-0.333). It was concluded that walking speed and stride time were the only kinematic parameters that

correlated with each of knee flexion and physical disability.

J Nov Physiother 2018, Volume 8

DOI: 10.4172/2165-7025-C2-027