Effect of a valgus brace on medial tibiofemoral joint contact force in knee osteoarthritis with varus malalignment: A within-participant cross-over randomised study with an uncontrolled observational longitudinal follow-up

• Michelle Hall ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: halm@unimelb.edu.au

  Affiliation Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, Department of Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2024-4945

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• Scott Starkey,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, Department of Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Rana S. Hinman,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, Department of Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Laura E. Diamond,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Griffith Centre of Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering (GCORE), Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2197-1856

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• Gavin K. Lenton,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Griffith Centre of Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering (GCORE), Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

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• Gabrielle Knox,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, Department of Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Claudio Pizzolato,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Griffith Centre of Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering (GCORE), Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

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• David J. Saxby

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Griffith Centre of Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering (GCORE), Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

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