THE RELATIONSHIP OF FRONTAL PLANE KNEE KINEMATICS WITH KNEE ALIGNMENT AND ADDUCTION MOMENT

It has been recognised that a knee varus alignment measured from static radiographs and a high knee adduction moment during gait are two important risk factors in the progression of medial knee osteoarthritis (OA) [Sharma, 2006]. We previously identified new frontal plane kinematic parameters enable to discriminate patients with severe knee OA from those with mild OA as well as asymptomatic subjects [Boivin, 2007]. The objective here is to determine the relationship of these knee kinematic parameters with a functional varus/valgus alignment and the knee adduction moment.