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Understanding the Role of Children’s Footwear on Children’s Feet and Gait Development: A Systematic Scoping Review

Children’s footwear plays an important role in the healthy growth of foot and gait development during the growing stage. This review aims to synthesize findings of previous investigations and to explore the biomechanical influences of different types of children’s footwear on foot health and gait de...

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Autores principales: Wang, Yuan, Jiang, Hanhui, Yu, Lin, Gao, Zixiang, Liu, Wei, Mei, Qichang, Gu, Yaodong
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10218108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37239704
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11101418
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author Wang, Yuan
Jiang, Hanhui
Yu, Lin
Gao, Zixiang
Liu, Wei
Mei, Qichang
Gu, Yaodong
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Jiang, Hanhui
Yu, Lin
Gao, Zixiang
Liu, Wei
Mei, Qichang
Gu, Yaodong
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description Children’s footwear plays an important role in the healthy growth of foot and gait development during the growing stage. This review aims to synthesize findings of previous investigations and to explore the biomechanical influences of different types of children’s footwear on foot health and gait development, thus guiding the healthy and safe growth of children’s feet and gait. Online databases were searched for potential eligible articles, including Web of Science, Google Scholar, and PubMed. In total, nineteen articles were identified after searching based on the inclusion requirements. The following five aspects of biomechanical parameters were identified in the literature, including spatiotemporal, kinematics, kinetics, electromyography (EMG), and plantar pressure distribution. Children’s footwear can affect their foot health and gait performance. In addition, children’s shoes with different flexibility and sole hardness have different effects on children’s feet and gait development. Compared to barefoot, the stride length, step length, stride time, and step time were increased, but cadence was decreased with wearing shoes. Furthermore, the support base and toe-off time increased. Double support time and stance time increased, but single support time decreased. The hip, knee, and ankle joints showed increased range of motion in children with the rear-foot strike with larger ground reaction force as well. Future studies may need to evaluate the influence of footwear types on gait performance of children in different age groups. Findings in this study may provide recommendations for suitable footwear types for different ages, achieving the aim of growth and development in a healthy and safe manner.
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spelling pubmed-102181082023-05-27 Understanding the Role of Children’s Footwear on Children’s Feet and Gait Development: A Systematic Scoping Review Wang, Yuan Jiang, Hanhui Yu, Lin Gao, Zixiang Liu, Wei Mei, Qichang Gu, Yaodong Healthcare (Basel) Review Children’s footwear plays an important role in the healthy growth of foot and gait development during the growing stage. This review aims to synthesize findings of previous investigations and to explore the biomechanical influences of different types of children’s footwear on foot health and gait development, thus guiding the healthy and safe growth of children’s feet and gait. Online databases were searched for potential eligible articles, including Web of Science, Google Scholar, and PubMed. In total, nineteen articles were identified after searching based on the inclusion requirements. The following five aspects of biomechanical parameters were identified in the literature, including spatiotemporal, kinematics, kinetics, electromyography (EMG), and plantar pressure distribution. Children’s footwear can affect their foot health and gait performance. In addition, children’s shoes with different flexibility and sole hardness have different effects on children’s feet and gait development. Compared to barefoot, the stride length, step length, stride time, and step time were increased, but cadence was decreased with wearing shoes. Furthermore, the support base and toe-off time increased. Double support time and stance time increased, but single support time decreased. The hip, knee, and ankle joints showed increased range of motion in children with the rear-foot strike with larger ground reaction force as well. Future studies may need to evaluate the influence of footwear types on gait performance of children in different age groups. Findings in this study may provide recommendations for suitable footwear types for different ages, achieving the aim of growth and development in a healthy and safe manner. MDPI 2023-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10218108/ /pubmed/37239704 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11101418 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Liu, Wei
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title_short Understanding the Role of Children’s Footwear on Children’s Feet and Gait Development: A Systematic Scoping Review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10218108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37239704
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11101418
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