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- Title
Gait biomechanics do not differ between adolescents with and without patellofemoral pain.
- Authors
Mazzella, Natalie; Trowell, Danielle; Fox, Aaron; Saunders, Natalie; Vicenzino, Bill; Bonacci, Jason
- Abstract
Objectives: To determine if adolescents with patellofemoral pain exhibit different biomechanical characteristics to asymptomatic adolescents during walking and running. Methods: Twenty‐eight adolescents with patellofemoral pain (16 male, 12 female, mean [SD] age: 14.3 [1.7] years) and 24 asymptomatic adolescents (13 male, 11 female, mean [SD] age: 14.1 [1.6] years) participated. Participants walked and ran on an instrumented treadmill in a standardized athletic shoe. Continuous hip, knee, and ankle joint angles and moments, and frontal plane pelvic motion were compared between groups using one‐dimensional statistical parametric mapping independent t‐tests (alpha <0.05). Cadence and stride length were compared between groups using independent t‐tests. Results: During walking, adolescents with patellofemoral pain had a higher hip extension moment at 7%–8% of the gait cycle (p = 0.04) and walked with a shorter stride length (mean difference [95% confidence interval] = −0.07 [−0.1, −0.01] m). There were no other differences between groups during walking. During running, adolescents with patellofemoral pain had greater knee flexion than asymptomatic adolescents at 35%–40% of the gait cycle (p = 0.04) and ran with a higher cadence (mean difference [95% confidence interval] = 5.8 [2.0, 9.5] steps/min). There were no other statistically significant differences between groups during running. Conclusions: Adolescents with patellofemoral pain demonstrate few biomechanical differences to asymptomatic adolescents during walking and running. The identified differences are likely of limited clinical importance. Biomechanical alterations which have been previously associated with patellofemoral pain in adults, may not need to be the target of management of adolescent patellofemoral pain.
- Subjects
KNEE physiology; HIP joint physiology; RUNNING; RANGE of motion of joints; CONFIDENCE intervals; GAIT in humans; TREADMILLS; ATHLETIC shoes; T-test (Statistics); DIAGNOSIS; WALKING; BIOMECHANICS; PLICA syndrome; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 2024, Vol 34, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0905-7188
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/sms.14587