Immediate effects of an elastic knee sleeve on frontal plane gait biomechanics in knee osteoarthritis.

INTRODUCTION:Osteoarthritis of the knee affects millions of people. Elastic knee sleeves aim at relieving symptoms. While symptomatic improvements have been demonstrated as a consequence of elastic knee sleeves, evidence for biomechanical alterations only exists for the sagittal plane. We therefore...

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Main Authors: Raphael Schween, Dominic Gehring, Albert Gollhofer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4306516?pdf=render