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Despite the numerous protocols for multi-segment kinematic analysis of the foot,
the literature is scarce regarding relevant measures of reliability.
The aim of the present work was to assess the inter-trial, inter-session and inter-examiner
variability of one of these protocols by an established method. The kinematics of
the joints of the foot of two volunteers were analyzed by four examiners with
different degrees of experience in three sessions, two-to-four weeks apart. In
each session the data of five trials of level walking were collected and the
rotations in the three anatomical planes between foot segments were calculated.
The mean value over stance phase duration of the standard deviation of these
rotations was calculated for groups of trials according to the statistical method
as in Schwartz et al. [6]. For each rotation, the inter-examiner variability was
larger than the inter-session, and the latter larger than the inter-trial. The inter-session variability was found
in the same order of magnitude for standard
lower limb protocols for the two expert examiners, but much higher for the
inexperienced examiners.
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