Combined three-dimensional gait and plantar pressure analyses detecting significant functional deficits in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Children suffering from juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), a heterogeneous group of chronic inflammatory joint diseases, adapt to individual gait patterns to avoid loading of inflamed, swollen and painful joints. As the interpretability of previous studies is limited, this study aims to assess the functional capacity, loads and plantar pressure distribution in the gait of a homogeneous JIA group.
Source: Gait and Posture - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Josephine Merker, Matthias Hartmann, Johannes-Peter Haas, Ansgar Schwirtz Tags: Full length article Source Type: research