Open AccessThe KSS 2011 Reflects Symptoms, Physical Activities, and Radiographic Grades in a Japanese Population
Author(s) -
Naoya Taniguchi,
Shinya Matsuda,
Takahisa Kawaguchi,
Yasuharu Tabara,
Tome Ikezoe,
Tadao Tsuboyama,
Noriaki Ichihashi,
Takeo Nakayama,
Fumihiko Matsuda,
Hiromu Ito
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
clinical orthopaedics and related research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.178
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1528-1132
pISSN - 0009-921X
DOI - 10.1007/s11999-014-3650-6
Subject(s) - medicine , physical therapy , body mass index , population , osteoarthritis , radiography , cross sectional study , physical examination , surgery , alternative medicine , pathology , environmental health
Cultural and ethnic differences are present both in subjective and objective measures of patient health, but scoring systems do not always reflect these differences, and so validation of outcomes tools in different cultural settings is important. Recently, a revised version of The Knee Society Score® (KSS 2011) was developed, but to our knowledge, the degree that this tool evaluates clinical symptoms, physical activities, and radiographic grades in the general Japanese population is not known.