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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Biomech (Bristol). 2010 May 14;25(7):700–707. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2010.04.001

Table 2.

Mean (95% Confidence Interval) measurement for initial contact and peak during stance phase knee abduction kinematics and kinetics calculated during the drop vertical jump. *Significant (p<0.05) difference between PFP and CTRL groups.

CTRL (n=131) New PFP (n=14)
95% Confidence Interval 95% Confidence Interval
Mean Lower Upper Unit Mean Lower Upper
Angle (IC) Involved 1.4 0.8 1.9 deg 1.5 0.3 3.3
Angle (IC) UnInvolved 1.5 0.9 2.1 deg 1.7 0.1 3.6
Angle (MAX) Involved 8.3 7.1 9.5 deg 6.6 3.2 10.0
Angle (MAX) UnInvolved 8.8 7.6 9.9 deg 9.1 5.6 12.7
Moment (IC) Involved* 1.3 0.5 2.1 Nm 3.8 1.4 6.2
Moment (IC) UnInvolved 1.8 1.1 2.6 Nm 2.4 0.0 4.8
Moment (MAX) Involved 19.0 16.8 21.3 Nm 19.5 14.2 24.7
Moment (MAX) UnInvolved* 15.2 13.7 16.8 Nm 20.9 13.1 28.7
Normalized Moment (IC) Involved* 0.024 0.011 0.036 Nm/kg 0.067 0.028 0.106
Normalized Moment (IC) UnInvolved 0.034 0.022 0.045 Nm/kg 0.043 0.008 0.078
Normalized Moment (MAX) Involved 0.342 0.313 0.370 Nm/kg 0.389 0.301 0.477
Normalized Moment (MAX) UnInvolved* 0.278 0.256 0.300 Nm/kg 0.364 0.296 0.432

IC = Knee abduction moment measured at initial contact

MAX = Peak knee abduction moment

Nm = Newton*meter