Abstract Summary
Individuals with lower limb malalignments may utilize differing movement strategies that are protective of their knees. To test this idea, total support moment distributions were compared between healthy individuals with and without genu valgum malalignment during single-limb forward and lateral drop landings. During the lateral drop landings, those with genu valgum landed with a greater hip joint contribution than those with normal alignment. Healthy individuals with genu valgum may use altered within-limb neuromuscular strategies that shift antigravity demands proximally to the hip.
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