Real-World Changes in Movement-Evoked Pain and Gait in Adults With Knee Osteoarthritis

ObjectiveAdults with knee osteoarthritis often experience movement-evoked pain (MEP), and that pain has the potential to alter gait mechanics and influence disease progression. However, the associations between MEP and gait biomechanics have only been assessed in typical lab settings. Gait mechanics differ in the lab compared to in the real-world, thus it is unknown whether these associations between pain and gait translate to real-world settings. Therefore, this study aimed to measure concurrent changes in MEP and gait mechanics across three days of typical real-world activity. DesignSeventeen participants with self-reported physician-diagnosed symptomatic knee osteoarthritis wore inertial