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  • Body weight support through a walking cane in inexperienced users with knee osteoarthritis

    Author(s)
    Hart, Julia
    Hall, Michelle
    Wrigley, Tim
    Marshall, Charlotte J
    Bennell, Kim L
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Hall, Michelle
    Year published
    2019
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    Background: Walking canes are a self-management strategy recommended for people with knee osteoarthritis (OA) by clinical practice guidelines. Ensuring that an adequate amount of body-weight support (%BWS) is taken through the walking cane is important as this reduces measures of knee joint loading. Research question: 1) How much body weight support do people with knee OA place through a cane? 2) Do measures of body weight support increase following a brief simple training session? Methods: Seventeen individuals with knee pain who had not used a walking cane before were recruited. A standard-grip aluminum cane was then used ...
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    Background: Walking canes are a self-management strategy recommended for people with knee osteoarthritis (OA) by clinical practice guidelines. Ensuring that an adequate amount of body-weight support (%BWS) is taken through the walking cane is important as this reduces measures of knee joint loading. Research question: 1) How much body weight support do people with knee OA place through a cane? 2) Do measures of body weight support increase following a brief simple training session? Methods: Seventeen individuals with knee pain who had not used a walking cane before were recruited. A standard-grip aluminum cane was then used for 1 week with limited manufacturer instructions. Following this, participants were evaluated using an instrumented force-measuring cane to assess body weight support (% total body weight) through the cane. Force data were recorded during a 430-metre walk undertaken twice; once before 10 min of cane training administered by a physiotherapist, and once immediately after training. Measures of BWS (peak force, average force, impulse equal to the average cane force times duration, and cane-ground contact duration) were extracted. Using bathroom scales, training aimed to take at least 10% body weight support through the cane. Results: Before training, the average peak BWS was 7.2 ± 2.5% of total body weight. Following 10 min of training, there was a significant increase in average peak BWS by 28%, average BWS by 25%, and BWS impulse by 54% (p < 0.05). However, individual BWS responses to training were variable. Duration of cane placement increased by 22% after training (p = 0.02). Timing of peak BWS through the cane occurred at 51% of contact phase before training, and at 53% after training (p = 0.05). Significance: A short training session can increase the transfer of body weight through a walking cane. However, more sophisticated feedback may be needed to achieve target levels of BWS.
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    Journal Title
    Gait and Posture
    Volume
    67
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2018.09.021
    Subject
    Mechanical engineering
    Clinical sciences
    Sports science and exercise
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/385386
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