Driven by the aesthetic pursuit of urban landscape, pedestrian bridges become longer, lighter, and slender, which may be susceptible to unacceptable vibrations induced human activities. This paper presented on-site vibration tests a bridge with very low height-to-span ratio (1/60). The characteristics dynamic responses were analyzed using environmental, heel-drop, walking tests. Then, verified ...

of August, 1866. History.?Patient, in May 1866, sustained a fall from a mango tree, from a height of about eighteen fyet. Ilis right foot swelled and suppurated, and there was an abundant discharge of pus from the heel; on the discharge subsiding, several sinuses remained, which continued to emit a small quantity of matter. Jle has fallen off in health since the accident happened, and has not r...

Ask the patient where the pain is and what it feels like. Patients with plantar fasciitis typically describe a sharp pain under the heel. It may extend along the arch of the foot, from the insertion, along the length of the plantar fascia. Pain is worse when taking their initial steps in the morning and eases after a few minutes of walking, but it may return on weight bearing after periods of i...

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...

The use of smartphones in clinical practice is steadily increasing with the availability of low cost/freely available "apps" that could be used to assess human gait. The primary aim of this manuscript is to test the concurrent validity of kinematic measures recorded by a smartphone application in comparison to a 3D motion capture system in the sagittal plane. The secondary aim was to develop a ...

Impact testing is undertaken to quantify the shock absorption characteristics of footwear. The current widely reported mechanical testing method mimics the heel impact in running and therefore applies excessive energy to walking footwear. The purpose of this study was to modify the ASTM protocol F1614 (Procedure A) to better represent walking gait. This was achieved by collecting kinematic and ...

CONTEXT Previous research into the rehabilitation of ankle sprains has primarily focused on outcome measures that do not replicate functional activities, thus making it difficult to extrapolate the results relative to the weight-bearing conditions under which most ankle sprains occur. OBJECTIVE To measure the effects of a training program on gait during walking and running in an active athlet...

Heel-to-toe drop (HTD) values may modify the running biomechanics. However, more than twenty additional footwear characteristics contribute to this too. The aim of review was identify and systematise specific effects caused by different HTDs on A systematic search carried out in seven online databases Footwear Science according PRISMA protocol for studies that included practice endurance shoes ...

BACKGROUND timed limb coordination tests are reliable measures of motor performance but many lack published reference values. OBJECTIVE to determine mean values for timed tests in an older cohort, examining associations with anthropometric characteristics, handedness, gender and age. DESIGN cross-sectional. SETTING community. SUBJECTS sixty-nine healthy adults divided into three groups:...