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Table 2 Repeatability of scores of ankle joint dorsiflexion, ankle joint dorsiflexion with 90-degreses knee flexion and polietal angle, obtained by three raters with varying levels of clinical experience in 142 healthy adolescent subjects examined twice within 2 h

From: The agreement and repeatability of measurements of ankle joint dorsiflexion and poplietal angle in healthy adolescents

Parameter

Orthopaedics specialist

Resident medical

doctor in orthopaedics

Physiotherapy student

Orthopaedics specialist

Resident medical

doctor in orthopaedics

Physiotherapy student

Wilcoxon Test p-value

Spearmans Rs coefficient (p-value)

Right

ankle dorsiflexion

0.823

0.347

0.108

0.710 (< 0.001)

0.663 (< 0.001)

0.715 (< 0.001)

Left

ankle dorsiflexion

0.021

0.936

0.068

0.702 (< 0.001)

0.722 (< 0.001)

0.727 (< 0.001)

Right ankle dorsiflexion with knee flexion

0.803

0.040

0.143

0.428 (< 0.001)

0.680 (< 0.001)

0.761 (< 0.001)

Left

ankle dorsiflexion with knee flexion

0.512

0.643

0.972

0.464 (< 0.001)

0.791 (< 0.001)

0.748 (< 0.001)

Right

Popliteal

0.789

0.946

0.932

0.675 (< 0.001)

0.686 (< 0.001)

0.747 (< 0.001)

Left

Popliteal

0.032

0.436

0.700

0.609 (< 0.001)

0.716 (< 0.001)

0.742 (< 0.001)