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Surgical versus conservative treatment following acute rupture of the Achilles tendon: is there a pedobarographic difference?
- Source :
- Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Dove Press, 2016.
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Abstract
- Fatih Karaaslan,1 Musa UÄur Mermerkaya,1 Alper Çıraklı,2 Sinan KaraoÄlu,3 Fuat Duygulu21Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Bozok University, Yozgat, Turkey; 2Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Kayseri Training Hospital, Kayseri, Turkey; 3Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Memorial Kayseri Hospital, Kayseri, TurkeyIntroduction: Controversy remains regarding the optimal treatment method and postoperative rehabilitation of acute Achilles tendon ruptures. In this study, pedobarographic assessments of surgical and conservative treatments were compared.Material and methods: A prospective assessment was made of 16 patients (eight surgical, eightconservative) and eight healthy controls using a plantar pressure measurement system. Biomechanical gait parameters were obtained using the Footscan dynamic gait analysis system. Kruskal–Wallis and Mann–Whitney U-tests were used for the evaluation of data.Results: Nineteen males and five females were assessed, with an average age of 42.0±11.9 years. Follow-up was completed in 16 patients. No statistically significant difference was determined between the two treatment groups with regard to the gait analysis, but a difference was observed with the control group (P
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
pedobarographic analysis
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Medicine
Pharmacology (medical)
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
Original Research
030222 orthopedics
Achilles tendon
Chemical Health and Safety
business.industry
Optimal treatment
Plantar pressure
Significant difference
030229 sport sciences
General Medicine
acute rupture
Gait
Tendon
Surgery
Conservative treatment
medicine.anatomical_structure
Gait analysis
business
Safety Research
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1178203X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....69abae009bc64bcddfc0ea7e28969d27