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Perceived Personal Impact and Selected Gait Features of Knee Osteoarthritis among Active Older Women with Mild-Moderate Radiographic Disease: Extent, Interrelationships and Implications
Ray Marks*
Department of Health & Behavior Studies, School of Health & Behavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA
- *Corresponding Author:
- Ray Marks
Department of Health and Behavior Studies
Teachers College, Columbia University
Box 114, 525W 120th Street
New York,10027
USA
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E-mail: rm226@columbia.edu
Received date: July 22, 2016; Accepted date: August 08, 2016; Published date: August 12, 2016
Citation: Marks R (2016) Perceived Personal Impact and Selected Gait Features of Knee Osteoarthritis among Active Older Women with Mild-Moderate Radiographic Disease: Extent, Interrelationships and Implications. J Ost Arth 1:114.
Copyright: © 2016 Marks R. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background: Factors other than pain that may impact the disease experience of adults with mild to moderate manifestations of knee osteoarthritis are poorly documented.
Objective: To examine the extent of the association between selected gait parameters and the overall perceptual experience of women with mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis
Method: The relationship between the emergent gait correlates of interest among 18 women, selected randomly from a cohort of 71 knee osteoarthritis cases, and their Arthritis Impact Measurement Scale scores were assessed on a single occasion using standard procedures.
Results: 1. There was a strong inverse association between the subject’s impact scores and their self-paced walking speed records, as well as their stride length scores (p<0.05). 2. Those who could walk further in a period of six minutes tended to be less impacted by the disease than those who walked shorter distances (p<0.05). 3. The strongest predictor of self-assessed arthritis impact was the stride length measure (r=-.65) 4. Those with asymmetrical gait features had worse impact scores, as well as gait parameter scores.
Conclusion: Careful gait assessments, and efforts to optimize stride length and gait symmetry, may help to reduce the aversive impact of knee osteoarthritis in mild-moderate cases.
