Volume 26, Issue 122, April 2022

Gender difference in Achilles tendon length by resting angle measurement in correlation to body parameters between Egyptian physical therapy students

Medhat Taha^1,2♦, Bandar A Alghamdi³, Amr Abo Gazya⁴, Hany MA Sonpol^1,5, Abdullah G Al-Kushi⁶, Mohie Mahmoud Ibrahim¹

¹Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
²Anatomy Department, Al- Qunfudah Medical College, University of Umm AL-Qura, Makka, Saudi Arabia
³Department of Surgery, College of Medicine in Al-Qunfudhah, Umm Al Qura University, Al-Qunfudhah 28814, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
⁴Department of Physical Therapy for Basic Sciences, Faculty of Physical therapy, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh 33516, Egypt
⁵Anatomy Unit, Basic medical sciences department, College of Medicine, University of Bisha, Bisha 67714, Saudi Arabia
⁶Department of Human Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Mecca 24382, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt

ABSTRACT

Aim of the study: our study aims to report if there is a gender difference in length of the Achilles tendon by measuring achilles tendon rest angle in relation to body parameters of the physical therapy students as adult samples. Methods: Measuring the resting angle of the Achilles tendon by goniometer for 134 students (106) male students and (28) female students and correlate with age, gender, body height, weight. Results: the mean Achilles tendon resting angle in male students 21.54º, SEM 3.27º and female students 22.42º SEM 2.83º with a total of 21.73º SEM 3.20º respectively, the tendon length correlates with the male student's height mean (172.18±8.29) and female students height (164.89±7.65) with total (170.66±8.66) respectively with higher correlation in the female students (0.637) than male students (0.383). On other hand, there is no correlation to age, weight with male students (72.15±11.18) and female students (72.57±14.13) with a total (72.23±11.80) respectively. Conclusions: there is a gender difference in achilles tendon length in relation to height with more correlation in females than males in the age of the adulthood.

Keywords: Gender, achilles tendon, Achilles tendon resting angle, physical therapy students

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms130e2202

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i122/ms130e2202

Published: 12 April 2022