Orthotics and other types of shoe inserts are primarily designed to reduce injury and improve comfort. The interaction between the plantar surface of the foot and the load-bearing surface contributes to foot and surface deformations and hence to perceived comfort, discomfort or pain. The plantar shapes of 16 participants' feet were captured when standing on three support surfaces that had diffe...

This study investigates whether the stress foot is a planned timing unit in American English, by examining the durational characteristics of the foot in three different prosodic contexts i) within an intermediate phrase, ii) across an intermediate phrase and iii) across an intonational phrase. The results show that as the number of syllables in a foot increases, the duration of the foot increas...

Abstract The aging process causes changes in the physical and functional conditions, as well foot structure function. This study aimed to analyze plantar pressure variation with respect visual information activity adult older women. was a cross-sectional that included 142 women (mean age of 67.8 years). Participants responded anamnesis questionnaire, Mini Mental State Examination, International...

Children's prosodically conditioned substitutions have been recently described in terms of syllable structure. In this paper we present an alternative analysis, based on the position of the consonant within the foot. We review data from a previous case study (Chiat, 1989) that provide evidence in favour of a foot domain account and against the syllable structure account. One consequence of this...

The anatomical design of the human foot is considered to facilitate generation of bipedal walking. However, how the morphology and structure of the human foot actually contribute to generation of bipedal walking remains unclear. In the present study, we investigated the three-dimensional kinematics of the foot bones under a weight-bearing condition using cadaver specimens, to characterize the i...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to clarify the difference in foot kinematics, including detailed analysis of the midand forefoot, between normal and flat feet. Methods: Forty-six feet of 33 young normal volunteers were participated in this study. All subjects were categorized two groups which were normal foot group and flat foot group. The fifteen color markers were mounted over the anat...

INTRODUCTION AND AIM Down syndrome (DS) is associated with numerous developmental abnormalities, some of which cause dysfunctions of the posture and the locomotor system. The analysis of selected features of the foot structure in boys with DS versus their peers without developmental disorders is done. MATERIALS AND METHODS The podoscopic examination was performed on 30 boys with DS aged 14-15...

1 Department of Anatomy, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 10016 THE FOOT is one of the most dynamic structures in the human body. The lively interplay of forces which makes its function possible is easily forgotten and it is too often treated like the graven image of a static structure. The success of modern therapeutic measures in solving other problems has owed much to close cooperation be...