Subject: ScienceDirect - Clinical Biomechanics : The effect of gait modification on the external knee adduction moment is reference frame dependent
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doi:10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2007.12.008
Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
Brief report
The effect of gait modification on the external knee adduction moment is reference frame dependent
Anthony G. Schache, Benjamin J. Fregly, Kay M. Crossley, Rana S. Hinman and Marcus G. Pandy
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, School of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Received 7 August 2007; accepted 17 December 2007. Available online 15 February 2008.
Abstract
Background
This study investigated the extent to which reference frame convention affects the interpretation of how gait modification alters the external knee adduction moment.
Methods
Data were collected from a single male able-bodied subject performing three gait tasks: normal, toe out and medial thrust. The net external moment vector at the knee was expressed in five alternative reference frames: the femur anatomical frame, the proximal tibia anatomical frame, the distal tibia anatomical frame, the laboratory frame and a non-orthogonal knee joint coordinate system. For each reference frame, the knee adduction moment was taken as the component about the frame’s anteroposterior axis.
Findings
Gait modification and selected reference frame both influenced the calculated knee adduction moment. Furthermore, these two effects were interactive, with the magnitude of the changes in the knee adduction moment produced by toe out and medial thrust gait being highly dependent on selected reference frame.
Interpretation
Choice of reference frame for calculating the external knee adduction moment is therefore an important consideration for studies investigating the relative effectiveness of interventions such as gait modification.
Keywords: Gait; Knee; Joint moment; Reference frame
Article Outline
1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1. Data collection
2.2. Data processing
3. Results
4. Discussion
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