Table 2.
Baseline knee angles for preferred speed overground walking, Mean (SE)
| Overground speeda (m/s) |
Cadencea (step/min) |
Heel-strike Flexiona (deg) |
Peak Flexion (deg) |
Toe-off Flexiona (deg) |
Average In/ext. rotationa (deg) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pain Flare (n = 8) | 1.35 (0.10) | 58.28 (1.51) | 9.71 (2.76) | 20.49 (2.44) | 58.25 (3.50) | 3.07 (1.20) |
| No Flare (n = 11) | 1.35 (0.06) | 59.41 (0.90) | 6.70 (1.31) | 16.06 (1.68) | 62.33 (1.97) | −1.47 (1.63) |
| Controls (n = 15) | 1.48 (0.03) | 60.43 (0.97) | 1.66 (1.14) | 18.64 (1.15) | 67.36 (0.91) | −0.04 (1.25) |
| p-value /effect size | ||||||
| PF vs C | p = 0.04 d = 0.83 | p = 0.02 d = 0.78 | p < 0.001 d = 1.48 | p < 0.001 d = 1.51 | p = 0.05 d = 0.70 | |
| NF vs C | p = 0.09 d = 0.74 | p = 0.002 d = 1.00 | p = 0.002 d = 0.98 | |||
| PF vs NF | p = 0.05 d = 0.60 | p = 0.02 d = 0.95 | ||||
aindicates a significant main group effect. The final rows report the p-values and cohen’s d effect size for post-hoc pairwise comparisons with p < 0.1 and d > 0.4