It has been reported that the new technology applied to current racing shoes increased performance of runners who use this kind footwear. This improvement proven in scientific literature relation oxygen consumption. Nevertheless, as it is a novel topic, there lack knowledge about which specific features achieve decrease consumption during running. Thus, purpose study was determine influence foo...

Hallux valgus occurs almost exclusively in shoe – wearing societies. Coughlin and Thompson (2) noting the extremely high prevalence of bunions in American women in the fourth, fifth or sixth decade of life, implicated constricting footwear as a cause of hallux valgus. Likewise, in Japan, Kato and Watanabe (3) noted that the prevalence of hallux valgus in women increased dramatically following t...

The recent rise in popularity of barefoot and minimal footwear running has led to spirited debates within the scientific, clinical and public arenas. While there are no definitive injury studies that support barefoot over shod running, there is a growing body of literature that suggests we may need to change our thinking about running mechanics, footwear and how we treat the foot. This presenta...

Despite the technological developments in modern running footwear, up to 79% of runners today get injured in a given year. As we evolved barefoot, examining this mode of running is insightful. Barefoot running encourages a forefoot strike pattern that is associated with a reduction in impact loading and stride length. Studies have shown a reduction in injuries to shod forefoot strikers as compa...

BACKGROUND Many women are warned against the dangers of wearing high heel footwear however there is limited empirical evidence demonstrating an association between wearing high heel with injury. Gait laboratory testing has found a higher heel height placed the foot in a position that increases the risk of ankle sprain. Women have also been surveyed about wearing high heels and approximately hal...

Impressions of footwear are commonly found in crime scenes. The quality and wide variability of these impressions and the large number of footwear outsole designs makes their manual analysis time-consuming and difficult. The goal of this research was to develop new computational methods that will eventually assist the forensic footwear examiner in the U.S. Two scenarios encountered by the foren...

Four intervention strategies were tested for their ability to prevent the mechanical transmission of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV): the use of disposable plastic boots to prevent contamination of personal footwear, the use of boot baths to disinfect PRRSV-contaminated plastic boots, the use of plastic slatted (Polygrate) flooring in the anteroom to prevent PRRSV co...