2025 Volume 40 Issue 1 Pages 42-46
[Purpose] We compared a knee orthosis developed with a focus on fitting pressure with the orthoses of patients with knee osteoarthritis, to examine whether the fitting pressure increased or not, and to compare the patients’ subjective evaluations of the two orthoses. [Participants and Methods] The subjects were 20 patients (8 males and 12 females) with knee osteoarthritis. First, we measured the pressure when the newly developed orthosis was worn and compared it with the pressure when the existing orthosis was worn. Then the patients reported their subjective evaluations of the difficulty of wearing, breathability, appearance, weight and wearing feeling of their existing orthosis and the newly developed orthosis on a Visual Analogue Scale. [Results] There was a significant difference in the pressure applied between the existing and newly developed orthoses. There were no significant differences in the patients’ subjective evaluations. [Conclusion] The pressure applied for the newly developed orthosis could be set higher than that of patients’ existing orthoses, but there were no differences in the patients’ subjective evaluations.
