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Table 2 Inter-rater reproducibility of knee RoM measurement

From: Reproducibility of goniometric measurement of the knee in the in-hospital phase following total knee arthroplasty

Tested movements

Observer A (degrees)

Observer B (degrees)

Agreement observer A-B

ICC (95%CI)

 

mean ± sd

mean ± sd

md ± sd

LoA*

 

Active Flexion sitting

81.4

10.7

78.3

11.3

3.1

5.3

-7.5 – 13.7

0.86 (0.64–0.94)

Passive flexion sitting

85.8

10.5

83.1

11.4

2.7

4.7

-6.7 – 12.1

0.88 (0.69–0.95)

Active flexion supine

70.6

13.2

70.5

17.0

0.06

7.3

-14.6 – 14.7

0.89 (0.78–0.95)

Passive flexion supine

79

12.8

77.6

17.0

1.4

8.8

-16.2 – 19

0.88 (0.77–0.94)

Active extension

11.1

5.0

10.2

4.7

0.9

4.1

-7.3 – 9.0

0.64 (0.38–0.81)

Passive extension

8.8

5.1

6.6

4.8

2.2

4.2

-6.2 – 10.6

0.62 (0.28–0.80)

  1. Sd, standard deviation; md, mean difference; CI, confidence interval; LoA, limits of agreement, calculated as the mean difference between observers ± 1.96SD of this mean difference.