Assessing Affordance Replaces Subjective-Objective Outcome Measure at the Knee Joint | Chapter 8 | New Horizons in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 11

 With an increasing focus on the patient's perspective, patient-reported outcome (PRO) tools are becoming increasingly important in evaluating the assessment of clinical outcomes. The endeavour to correlate PROs to objective outcomes by clinicians has produced distinct data for patient care management. Objective and patient-reported outcomes have typically been viewed as two distinct entities that cannot be directly compared, such as the Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS).

Can Gibson's affordance theory provide further details on how to evaluate objective vs subjective results and combine them? When the skin and joints are projected to the same region of the somatosensory cortex, perception systems at the knee joint are active sets of organs working to achieve balance; the joint cannot even be considered to send a flat map to the brain. With these presumptions in mind, this study shows how a particular technique for measuring knee proprioception might combine the end measure split by the objective-subjective gap.

The purpose of this study is to make the argument that the evaluation procedure may be regarded in terms of the possible courses of action offered by the active organ systems located within the knee proprioceptive system that can gather and use information about the tissue surroundings.

Author(s) Details:

Wangdo Kim,
Ingenieria Mecanica, Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia – UTEC, Lima, Peru.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/NHMMR-V11/article/view/7143