The Impact of Obesity and Weight Loss on Gait in Adults - The Mechanobiology of Obesity and Related Diseases - page 129

Table 2 Ankle, knee, and hip joint angles in obese compared to normal weight subjects during certain gait phases and events at standardized (Std) and self-
selected (Ss) walking speeds (WS) in gait studies

Author Angles () (obese/normal weight)

Ankle WS Event or phase Pflex Ev

Spyropoulos et al. [ 51 ] Ss Initial contact 9.0/9.2 -

Middle stance 16.3/1.8** -

Toe off 1.0/-20.7** -

Messier et al. [ 33 ] Std Stance (RoM) - 14.8/6.8

DeVita and Hortobágyi [ 12 ] Std Toe off 22.8/15.4** -

Stance (mean) -0.3/-5.9** -

Browning and Kram [ 7 ] Std Middle stance NS -

Lai et al. [ 24 ] Ss Middle stance NS -2.2/2.1*

Terminal stance NS -4.3/0.9**

Pre-swing NS -1.6/2.9*

Knee WS Event or phase Flex Abd Add

Spyropoulos et al. [ 51 ] Ss Initial contact 7.0/8.6 - -

Middle stance 12.0/6.6 - -

Toe off 47.3/48.4 - -

DeVita and Hortobágyi [ 12 ] Std Stance (mean) -13.0/17.1 - -

Browning and Kram [ 7 ] Std Middle stance NS - -

Lai et al. [ 24 ] Ss Swing (mean) - - 6.3/-1.7

F. Silvernail et al. [ 16 ] Ss Stance (peak) 16.1/18.8 - 2.4/6.2*

Hip WS Event or phase Ext Flex Abd Add

Spyropoulos et al. [ 51 ] Ss Initial contact - 29.8/40.7 -10.9/1.9 -

Middle stance - 3.3/7.2 17.8/8.3** -

Toe off - -2.1/3.6 3.7/-9.3** -

DeVita and Hortobágyi [ 12 ] Std Stance (mean) 0.3/-4.9 - - -