Knee joint dysfunctions that influence gait in cerebrovascular injury.

Clinics
Paulo Roberto Garcia Lucareli, Julia Maria D'Andrea Greve

Abstract

There is still no consensus among different specialists on the subject of kinematic variation during the hemiparetic gait, including the main changes that take place during the gait cycle and whether the gait velocity changes the patterns of joint mobility. One of the most frequently discussed joints is the knee. This study aims to evaluate the variables found in the angular kinematics of knee joint, and to describe the alterations found in the hemiparetic gait resulting from cerebrovascular injury. This study included 66 adult patients of both genders with a diagnosis of either right or left hemiparesis resulting from ischemic cerebrovascular injury. All the participants underwent three-dimensional gait evaluation, an the angular kinematics of the joint knee were selected for analysis. The results were distributed into four groups formed based on the median of the gait speed and the side of hemiparesis. The relevant clinical characteristics included the important mechanisms of loading response in the stance, knee hyperextension in single stance, and reduction of the peak flexion and movement amplitude of the knee in the swing phase. These mechanisms should be taken into account when choosing the best treatment. We believe that...Continue Reading

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Oct 26, 2012·TheScientificWorldJournal·Shmuel SpringerYocheved Laufer
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