Use of a suspended and straightened knee joint position when fixing steel plates can prevent the increase in postoperative posterior tibial slope after open‑wedge high tibial osteotomy

Table 6 Comparation of preoperative and postoperative HSS scores

	n	Preoperative HSS score	Postoperative HSS score	t	P value
NSP group	44	46.64 ± 3.26	83.64 ± 5.78	− 20.923	< 0.001
SSP group	78	48.13 ± 3.81	86.08 ± 3.01	− 47.703	< 0.001
t		− 1.181	− 1.900
P value		0.243	0.063

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