Relationship of Anterior Knee Pain and Flat foot: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background: The collapse of medial longitudinal arch is called Flat Foot. In medical word, flat foot is associated with pronated foot. The prevalence of flatfoot is 17.1% in 7-14 years of age, 16.4% in 6-13 years and 17.2% in 6-12 years of age. Idiopathic anterior knee pain in nonathletic population without any history of any knee injury is mainly attributed to abnormal alignment and muscular imbalance. Flat foot is one of the contributing factors to development of anterior knee pain. Objective: The aim of present study is to find out the association between anterior knee pain and flat foot in young adults in Vadodara City . Method: Total 284 subjects were taken from the Vadodara city and assessed. Google form was created and circulated through digital media, Clarke’s Angle was measured from the foot print and Kujala Score was calculated from the Google form. Pearson Correlation test was used to analyse the data. Result: Result of the current study showed that there is negative correlation between flatfoot and anterior knee pain, which means changes in the variables taking in opposite direction. Conclusion: The present study concluded that there is negative correlation between flatfoot and anterior knee pain, which means reduction in the Medial longitudinal Arch can increase knee pain. Reduction of medical longitudinal arch can malalign the knee joint, which ultimately alter the biomechanics of knee joint that can lead to increase in severity of knee pain. More reduction of Clarke’s angle, more the severity of anterior knee pain.