Table 2.
Outcomes after rectus femoris transfer in children with stiff knee gait
| Preoperative baseline | Postoperative short-term | Postoperative long-term | F | df | p value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinematics | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||
| PKF | 60.89 | 14.03 | 68.23 | 10.08 | 62.6 | 10.78 | 16.78 | 1 | < 0.001 |
| KROM | 49.26 | 16.15 | 51.62 | 14.95 | 47.19 | 14.01 | 3.95 | 1 | 0.02 |
| TiPKF | 81 | 7 | 80 | 5 | 79 | 6 | 4.43 | 1 | 0.01 |
| VKF | 210.19 | 108.16 | 286.74 | 135.54 | 238.74 | 115.34 | 20.45 | 1 | < 0.001 |
PKF = peak knee flexion in degrees; KROM = knee ROM in degrees; TiPKF = time to peak knee flexion in percent of the gait cycle; VKF = knee flexion velocity in degrees/second; F is the ratio of the variances for the analysis of variance model, whereas df is the degree of freedom.