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Fuß & Schuh - Biomechanik, Alter und Frauen

Zusammenfassung: The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of various wedged insoles on forefoot plantar pressure values. Forefoot plantar pressure values were measured under using 3 different types wedged insoles during static standing / dynamic walking compared with a barefoot value as control.

Zusammenfassung: The reproducibility of measurement results from the plantar pressure distribution was analysed for 2 test subjects. The results showed a high variability for the individual sensors of a measuring sole. Reproducibility is improved when major surface areas with a larger number of sensors are analysed.

Zusammenfassung: Specialist therapeutic footwear is provided for people with rheumatoid arthritis. Despite the known clinical benefits there remains a problem of low usage. This study used a qualitative approach to gain deeper insight into this problem than previous work.

Zusammenfassung: Expectations that were not met by the outcomes were associated with non use of custom-made orthopaedic shoes (OS), whereas expectations per se were not associated. This indicates that it is essential to keep patients expectations realistic, in order for OS to be used.

Zusammenfassung: The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of different wedges in elderly gait kinetics. Six kinds of wedges were used, in a sample of 17 subjects. Each subject walked over the force plate wearing each one of the wedges. The results showed that the influence is individual.