Hip cf impulse during stair descend best discriminates between healthy controls and hip osteoarthritis patients

The aim of this study is to determine which functional exercises (n=9) shows the largest difference in calculated hip and knee contact force (CF) between hip/knee OA patient groups and the healthy controls (HC). The exercises consisted of level walking, ascending and descending stairs, forward lunge, sideward lunge, sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit, single leg stance and single leg squat. Our preliminary results show that descending stairs has the largest discriminating value between HC and hip OA patients. Further research will include a knee OA patient group and additional hip OA patients and HC.