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Journal of Rheumatology and Medical Rehabilitation, vol.13, no.3, pp.166-173, 2002 (Scopus)
The purpose of this research is to detect knee and foot disabilities in patients with/without osteoarthritis and to evaluate the relation among pain, disability and postural deformities. Sixty two patients were included in this study. In the evaluation of the relationship between the osteoarthritic and the nonosteoarthritic groups, a significant relation was observed between osteoarthritic group and genu varum deformity (p<0.05). No relation was observed between gender and deformity (p>0.05). Patients with genu varum were observed to have higher body mass index. Genu varum deformity was more common in patients with obesity (p<0.05). WOMAC pain and disability index was used to measure severity of pain and disability . Among the deformities detected, only genu varum deformity was related with severe pain (p<0.05). No relation was observed between pes cavus deformity and genu varum or genu valgum (p>0,05). Among the 17 activities presented in WOMAC index; 6 were observed to have a relation with genu varum deformity (p<0,01). There was a significant relation between the patients who had genu varum deformity and the pathological knee magnetic resonance imaging (p<0.05). Tibiofemoral angles were measured in all patients and Q angles were evaluated among the patients with/without deformity. There was no statistically significant differences between them (p>0.05). In conclusion, a strong relation was observed among genu varum deformity, knee pain intensity, age and weight. There is a strong relation among deformity, knee pain intensity, and functional disability. In the magnetic resonance imagings of knee; meniscus lesions, condromalasie patella, and the other knee pathologies have been detected. Observations of the relation between these pathologies and genu varum deformity may show that deformities are not only reason causes knee pain.