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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3960</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.131519</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Risk of Developing Knee Medial Compartment Osteoarthritis in Subjects with Piriformis Tightness&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Jinil</surname><given-names>M</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>P</surname><given-names>Mohanty</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>M</surname><given-names>Pattnaik</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>10</day><month>08</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>5)</volume><issue/><fpage>100</fpage><lpage>105</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: This study was conducted to examine the association between knee osteoarthritis and hindfoot angle, medial tibiofemoral angle, piriformis tightness and hip internal rotation. Aims: To examine the association between knee osteoarthritis and hindfoot angle, medial tibiofemoral angle, piriformis tightness and hip internal rotation. Methodology: A quantitative study with a non-experimental relational design was conducted on a total sample consist of 132 knees of 89 subjects ( 31 males and 58 females) age range (45__ampersandsignndash; 70). Result: On multiple regressions with entering model (R=.708, R2= .501 and p=.000), a good (R=.655) and significant correlation (p.000) lead to linear regression analysis between medial tibiofemoral angle and hindfoot angle. Pearson correlation between hindfoot angle and medial tibiofemoral angle was R=.655, R2 =.429, p=.001, beta= -.822. Pearson chi-square (p=.000), likelihood ratio (p=.000) and Fisher__ampersandsignrsquo;s exact test (p=.000) show that there is a significant association between piriformis tightness and OA grade, phi coefficient was .595 and Cramer__ampersandsignrsquo;s V was .343 which shows the association is strong. Conclusion: Medial compartment osteoarthritis of the knee joint is characterised by genu varum. It is often associated with hindfoot varus. Both genu varum and hindfoot varum can biomechanically be linked with the tightness of the piriformis muscle.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> Knee osteoarthritis</kwd><kwd> Piriformis</kwd><kwd> Genu varum</kwd><kwd> Hindfoot varus</kwd><kwd> Hip internal rotation</kwd><kwd> Tibiofemoral angle</kwd><kwd> Grades of  osteoarthritis</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
