Restoration of gait spatio-temporals after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
Document Type
Conference Item
Publication Date
1-1-2022
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate symmetrical alternations in gait spatio-temporal parameters among athletes after ACL reconstruction. Motion analysis was used to analyze the gait of 22 athletes with ACL reconstruction at three different times of rehabilitation program and 15 healthy subjects. Asymmetry indexes of cadence, step length, weight acceptance time, and stance time (STT) were assessed. One way and repeated measure multivariate analyses of variance were applied to analyze the data. There was a significance difference (P = 0.007) in combination of measured variables of patients comparing to control group. Stance time asymmetry index was the only parameter that demonstrated a significant reduction from initial to final test (P = 0.004). By performing the rehabilitation program, asymmetry restoration of the gait spatio-temporal parameters towards the range of control group was achieved three months after ACL reconstruction. The results also suggested to consider the inter-correlation of parameters for gait improvement evaluation. © 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Keywords
Multivariant analysis, Patient rehabilitation, ACL reconstruction, Anterior-Cruciate-Ligament reconstruction, Cadence, Control groups, Rehabilitation projects, Spatio-temporal, Stance time, Step length, Symmetry, Weight acceptance time, Restoration
Divisions
biomedengine,1234
Funders
None
Publication Title
IFMBE Proceedings
Volume
86
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Event Title
6th Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BioMed 2021
Event Type
conference