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The feasibility of a modified shoe for multi-segment foot motion analysis: a preliminary study
BACKGROUND: The majority of multi-segment kinematic foot studies have been limited to barefoot conditions, because shod conditions have the potential for confounding surface-mounted markers. The aim of this study was to investigate whether a shoe modified with a webbed upper can accommodate multi-se...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4765151/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26913080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13047-016-0138-5 |
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author | Halstead, J. Keenan, A. M. Chapman, G. J. Redmond, A. C. |
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description | BACKGROUND: The majority of multi-segment kinematic foot studies have been limited to barefoot conditions, because shod conditions have the potential for confounding surface-mounted markers. The aim of this study was to investigate whether a shoe modified with a webbed upper can accommodate multi-segment foot marker sets without compromising kinematic measurements under barefoot and shod conditions. METHODS: Thirty participants (15 controls and 15 participants with midfoot pain) underwent gait analysis in two conditions; barefoot and wearing a shoe (shod) in a random order. The shod condition employed a modified shoe (rubber plimsoll) with a webbed upper, allowing skin mounted reflective markers to be visualised through slits in the webbed material. Three dimensional foot kinematics were captured using the Oxford multi-segment foot model whilst participants walked at a self-selected speed. RESULTS: The foot pain group showed greater hindfoot eversion and less hindfoot dorsiflexion than controls in the barefoot condition and these differences were maintained when measured in the shod condition. Differences between the foot pain and control participants were also observed for walking speed in the barefoot and in the shod conditions. No significant differences between foot pain and control groups were demonstrated at the forefoot in either condition. CONCLUSIONS: Subtle differences between pain and control groups, which were found during barefoot walking are retained when wearing the modified shoe. The novel properties of the modified shoe offers a potential solution for the use of passive infrared based motion analysis for shod applications, for instance to investigate the kinematic effect of foot orthoses. |
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spelling | pubmed-47651512016-02-25 The feasibility of a modified shoe for multi-segment foot motion analysis: a preliminary study Halstead, J. Keenan, A. M. Chapman, G. J. Redmond, A. C. J Foot Ankle Res Research BACKGROUND: The majority of multi-segment kinematic foot studies have been limited to barefoot conditions, because shod conditions have the potential for confounding surface-mounted markers. The aim of this study was to investigate whether a shoe modified with a webbed upper can accommodate multi-segment foot marker sets without compromising kinematic measurements under barefoot and shod conditions. METHODS: Thirty participants (15 controls and 15 participants with midfoot pain) underwent gait analysis in two conditions; barefoot and wearing a shoe (shod) in a random order. The shod condition employed a modified shoe (rubber plimsoll) with a webbed upper, allowing skin mounted reflective markers to be visualised through slits in the webbed material. Three dimensional foot kinematics were captured using the Oxford multi-segment foot model whilst participants walked at a self-selected speed. RESULTS: The foot pain group showed greater hindfoot eversion and less hindfoot dorsiflexion than controls in the barefoot condition and these differences were maintained when measured in the shod condition. Differences between the foot pain and control participants were also observed for walking speed in the barefoot and in the shod conditions. No significant differences between foot pain and control groups were demonstrated at the forefoot in either condition. CONCLUSIONS: Subtle differences between pain and control groups, which were found during barefoot walking are retained when wearing the modified shoe. The novel properties of the modified shoe offers a potential solution for the use of passive infrared based motion analysis for shod applications, for instance to investigate the kinematic effect of foot orthoses. BioMed Central 2016-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4765151/ /pubmed/26913080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13047-016-0138-5 Text en © Halstead et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Halstead, J. Keenan, A. M. Chapman, G. J. Redmond, A. C. The feasibility of a modified shoe for multi-segment foot motion analysis: a preliminary study |
title | The feasibility of a modified shoe for multi-segment foot motion analysis: a preliminary study |
title_full | The feasibility of a modified shoe for multi-segment foot motion analysis: a preliminary study |
title_fullStr | The feasibility of a modified shoe for multi-segment foot motion analysis: a preliminary study |
title_full_unstemmed | The feasibility of a modified shoe for multi-segment foot motion analysis: a preliminary study |
title_short | The feasibility of a modified shoe for multi-segment foot motion analysis: a preliminary study |
title_sort | feasibility of a modified shoe for multi-segment foot motion analysis: a preliminary study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4765151/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26913080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13047-016-0138-5 |
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