Table 6.
Comparison of state of the knee and joint pain of fall and non-fall groups in the patients and controls
| Patients | Controls | ||||||
| Non-fallers | Fallers | P value | Non-fallers | Fallers | P value | ||
| (n = 50) | (n = 31) | (n = 61) | (n = 19) | ||||
| Knee pain | Regular stiffness (%) | 29.2 | 50.0 | 0.069 | 47.7 | 47.4 | 0.990 |
| Pain while walking (%) | 22.9 | 21.4 | 0.881 | 34.4 | 36.8 | 0.847 | |
| Pain while climbing up or down stairs (%) | 27.1 | 22.2 | 0.642 | 39.3 | 42.1 | 0.830 | |
| Pain while standing (%) | 14.9 | 17.9 | 0.735 | 26.2 | 26.3 | 0.994 | |
| Restriction from joining social activities due to knee pain (%) | 25.0 | 25.9 | 0.929 | 13.6 | 41.7 | 0.030 | |
| Knee flexion range of motion | i) Excellent (%) | 41.7 | 3.7 | 0.005 | 80.3 | 84.2 | 0.548 |
| ii) Good (%) | 37.5 | 48.1 | 4.9 | 10.5 | |||
| iii) Average (%) | 14.6 | 33.3 | 6.6 | 0.0 | |||
| iv) Poor (%) | 2.1 | 11.1 | 4.9 | 0.0 | |||
| v) Bad (%) | 4.2 | 3.7 | 1.6 | 5.3 | |||
| Other joint pain | Spine (%) | 40.8 | 48.3 | 0.506 | 45.9 | 47.3 | 0.911 |
| Hip (%) | 8.1 | 0.0 | 0.103 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.424 | |
| Ankle (%) | 12.1 | 16.1 | 0.62 | 4.9 | 0.0 | 0.324 | |
| Varus deformity of the knee (%) | – | – | – | 31.7 | 47.4 | 0.212 | |