The aim of this study was to examine the effect of changes in speed and incline slope on plantar pressure distribution of the foot during treadmill jogging. Plantar pressure parameters were measured with the Pedar-X system in twenty healthy girls (mean age of 20.7 years, mean height of 1.60m, and a mean weight of 53.35kg). Because variations in walking speed or slope can significantly change th...

Yang Y, Baker M, Graf S, Larson J, Caiozzo VJ. Hypergravity resistance exercise: the use of artificial gravity as potential countermeasure to microgravity. J Appl Physiol 103: 1879–1887, 2007. First published September 13, 2007; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00772.2007.—The aims of this study were to 1) determine if hypergravity (HG) squats can produce foot forces similar to those measured during 10...

Obesity is the primary risk factor for knee osteoarthritis (OA). Greater external knee adduction moments, surrogate measures for medial compartment loading, are present in Obese individuals and may predispose them to knee OA. Laterally wedged insoles decrease the magnitude of the external adduction moment in Obese individuals but it is unknown how they alter the center of pressure on the tibial...

Objectives: We evaluated whether a valgus knee brace and an insole with subtalar strapping could reduce pain and improve functional scores over 12 months in patients with medial knee osteoarthritis (OA). Methods: OA was confirmed by radiography in all patients, who were divided into three groups: exercise (n = 44), insole (n = 55), and brace (n = 19). Clinical knee functions and gait analyses w...

In Wearable Well-Being project PUHVI, HipGuard system for patients recovering from hip surgery was developed. Novel wireless sensors having 3-axis acceleration and 3-axis magnetic sensors are used to measure patient’s hip and leg position and rotation. Furthermore, capacitive insole sensors are used to measure the force between foot and a shoe. This paper concentrates on how these sensors can b...

Although additive manufacturing (AM) has potential in producing personalised items, such as footwear, it is unknown how to best capture and measure the foot in this context nor the short and medium term impact of such footwear on discomfort and injury risks. Therefore, research is currently being conducted to evaluate the short and medium term use of personalised footwear in terms of discomfort...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of myofascial therapy involving ischemic compression on trigger points in combination with mobilization therapy on patients with chronic nonspecific foot pain. STUDY DESIGN Two quasi-experimental before-and-after studies involving two different baseline states. METHOD Foot pain patients at a private clinic were divided into two se...

Knowledge of ergonomics/human factors plays an important role in the creation and design safety shoes insoles, contributing to worker protection, comfort, stability. The purpose this study is compare previous insole designs analyze plantar pressure gait pattern kinematics using Oxford foot model protocol. tests were performed comparing environments on three rockers gait, represented by heel, mi...

Offloading plantar pressure in a diabetic foot with neuropathy is challenging conventional clinical practice. Custom-made insole (CMI) materials play an important role reduction, but the assessment costly and time-consuming. Finite element analysis (FEA) can provide efficient evaluation of different insoles on distribution. This study investigated effect CMI their combinations reduction for usi...

introduction: foot insoles are widely recommended to prevent running related to injuries. however, their effects on the frequency of ground reaction force(grf) is still unclear. the purpose of this study was to elemental test the effect of four shoe insoles on frequency of grf during stance phase of running. materials and methods: 15 female students (mean age22±1/85 year, height162±4/71cm and w...