Table 2.

Range of tibial and patellar motion

	Affected limb-M		Affected limb-F	Contralateral limb-M		Contralateral limb-F		Gender effect (P)	Group effect (P)	Gender × group interaction (P)
Tibial motion
posterior translation, mm	8.9 ± 4.8		7.3 ± 4.1	7.6 ± 4.6		5.9 ± 3.8		0.13	0.87	0.58
inferior translation, mm	3.5 ± 1.8		2.9 ± 2.1	1.1 ± 1.8		1.9 ± 2.1		0.25	0.18	0.71
lateral translation, mm	1.5 ± 1.4		0.7 ± 1.5	2.2 ± 2.4		1.0 ± 2.5		0.03	0.38	0.40
valgus, °	4.0 ± 2.6		1.8 ± 2.5	4.6 ± 2.4		2.6 ± 2.1		0.02	0.21	0.14
Internal rotation, °	7.6 ± 4.3		3.9 ± 2.6	8.8 ± 4.5		5.6 ± 2.5		< 0.01	0.04	0.01
Patellar motion
posterior shift, mm	21.9 ± 7.1		19.9 ± 6.8	25.3 ± 5.9		23.7 ± 6.8		0.41	0.75	0.55
inferior shift, mm	27.0 ± 5.1		21.6 ± 5.4	31.1 ± 4.7		26.9 ± 4.5		0.01	0.02	0.09
lateral shift, mm	3.7 ± 2.0		2.1 ± 1.8	3.5 ± 1.6		1.9 ± 1.8		0.26	0.42	0.30
flexion, °	34.4 ± 8.8		29.9 ± 7.8	45.4 ± 12.3		41.9 ± 9.8		0.43	0.04	0.24
Lateral tilt,°	0.6 ± 1.6		0.3 ± 0.8	1.5 ± 2.4		1.9 ± 2.8		0.03	< 0.01	0.04
Internal rotation, °	1.9 ± 1.7		1.5 ± 2.8	2.2 ± 2.3		1.9 ± 1.8		0.32	0.56	0.89

Bold values indicate statistically significant difference (p < 0.05)

Data are presented as mean ± SD