Research Article

Timing of Frontal Plane Trunk Lean, Not Magnitude, Mediates Frontal Plane Knee Joint Loading in Patients with Moderate Medial Knee Osteoarthritis

Table 2

Mean (SD) duration (s) and proportion (%) that participants of each group spent in stance versus swing and specifically during weight acceptance (WA) during each limb’s gait cycle (GC).

CTRL% GCOA% GC

Inv stance0.62 (0.04)59.4 (1.7)0.66 (0.06)62.9 (2.3)
Uninv stance0.62 (0.04)59.9 (1.5)0.66 (0.06)63.1 (2.7)
Inv swing0.42 (0.03)40.6 (1.7)0.39 (0.04)37.1 (2.3)
Uninv swing0.41 (0.03)40.1 (1.5)0.38 (0.04)36.9 (2.7)
Inv WA0.10 (0.02)9.3 (1.5)0.14 (0.03)13.0 (2.7)
Uninv WA0.10 (0.02)9.9 (1.4)0.13 (0.03)12.9 (2.6)

Inv: involved limb; Uninv: uninvolved limb. Significant differences between groups for relative proportion of gait cycle (% GC) spent in stance versus swing ( of group by phase; ). Significant group difference for WA as % GC ( effect; ).