PMID: 9421820Jan 1, 1997Paper

Intratester and intertester reliability and criterion validity of the parallelogram and universal goniometers for active knee flexion in healthy subjects

Physiotherapy Research International : the Journal for Researchers and Clinicians in Physical Therapy
L BrosseauS Balmer

Abstract

A new parallelogram goniometer was designed by the Rehabilitation Centre of the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group in 1983. The advantage of using such a goniometer is that the clinician is not required to estimate the joint axis of rotation when taking a measurement. The parallelogram goniometer has obtained a good intratester and intertester reliability when measuring active range of motion of hip abduction on eight individuals with hip pathologies. However, the validity of the parallelogram goniometer has not been examined. The purposes of this study were to examine the intratester and intertester reliability and the criterion validity of the parallelogram and universal goniometers for active knee flexion on healthy individuals. Sixty healthy university students (44 females and 16 males; mean age of 20.6 yrs.) participated to this study. Measurements with the universal and parallelogram goniometers were taken in two different positions, the smaller and larger angles of active knee flexion. All measurements were taken by two trained testers. A radiograph was taken in both positions to serve as the 'gold standard'. The sequence of the measurements and radiographs were randomly selected. The intra and intertester reliability of bot...Continue Reading

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