Altered visual and feet proprioceptive feedbacks during quiet standing increase postural sway in patients with severe knee osteoarthritis.

The objective was to investigate how postural control in knee osteoarthritis (KOA) patients, with different structural severities and pain levels, is reorganized under different sensory conditions.Forty-two obese patients (BMI range from 30.1 to 48.7 kg*m(-2), age range from 50 to 74 years) with KOA...

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Main Authors: Rogerio Pessoto Hirata, Tanja Schjødt Jørgensen, Sara Rosager, Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Henning Bliddal, Marius Henriksen, Thomas Graven-Nielsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3750025?pdf=render