CONSTRUCTION AND RELIABILITY THE IRANIAN NEW DEVICE FOR MEASURED ANKLE PROPRIOCEPTIVE

The purpose of this study was to test the reliability of a novice Iranian device for measuring ankle proprioceptive. For this purpose, 20 young males with the mean age of 4/5±4/22 yrs old, mean weight of 14/62 ±6/5 kg, and mean height of 175/34±5/3 cm were recruited in this study. The subjects selected randomly from the University of Tehran. An examiner measured 20 subjects for 10 Times to evaluate the Inter-rater reliability (ICC). For Intra-rater reliability measurements, 4 examiners measured 8 subjects (right and left foot=16 trial) in 4 times. Altogether 64 trials were performed for this reason. Before the measurement, 4 measurers received adequate instruction. Hence, the stability of the device measurements over time was assessed. Inter class correlation coefficient (ICC) and intera class correlation coefficient was applied to check reliability of ankle proprioceptive goniometric. ICC for inter class and intera class correlation coefficient was 0/97 and 0/87 receptively. Also the over time stability of device was 0/82. From the results of this study we can recommend the use of this tool for accurate and rapid measurements of ankle joint position sense.