Acceptability of Minimalist Shoes Compared With Balance‐Enhancing Shoes in Older Women: Protocol for a Randomised Crossover Trial [PDF]
Journal of Foot and Ankle ResearchIntroduction Falls are a major concern for older women and can result in significant injury. Footwear has been shown to improve or impair balance performance in older women, contingent upon footwear design features. Balance‐enhancing shoes may reduce the
Ameer Nor Azhar +3 more
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The Effects of Combining High-Top Shoes with Twister Wrap Orthoses on Balance Parameters of Children with Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy [PDF]
Journal of Biomedical Physics and Engineering, 2022 Background: Cerebral palsy (CP) is a non-progressive encephalopathy before, during, or after childbirth with almost the most common type, i.e. spastic diplegic, leading to a frequent walking problem, In-toeing. Orthoses can reduce the consequences of CP.
Mehrdad Davoudi +6 more
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Footwear Affects Conventional and Sumo Deadlift Performance
Sports, 2021 Barefoot weightlifting has become a popular training modality in recent years due to anecdotal suggestions of improved performance. However, research to support these anecdotal claims is limited.
Kevin A. Valenzuela +5 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 BackgroundThe incidence of diabetic foot ulceration (DFU) is increasing worldwide. Therapeutic footwear is usually recommended in clinical practice for preventing foot ulcers in persons with diabetes.
Liliana B. Sousa +7 more
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The Influence of the Shoe over the Medial Foot Arch and the Lower Limbs Kinematics in Toddlers
Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia, 2022 Objective To evaluate the biomechanical behavior of the medial longitudinal arch (MLA) of the foot and the kinematic parameters of the lower limbs with biomimetic footwear (BF) and non-biomimetic (NB1, NB2, NB3 and NB4) footwear in children at the ...
Liria Akie Okai-Nobrega +5 more
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A qualitative study exploring barriers related to use of footwear in rural highland Ethiopia: implications for neglected tropical disease control [PDF]
, 2013 Background The role of footwear in protection against a range of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) is gaining increasing attention. Better understanding of the behaviors that influence use of footwear will lead to improved ability to measure shoe use
Ayode, Desta +7 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 Background: The Parkinsonian [i.e., Parkinson's disease (PD)] gait disorder represents a therapeutical challenge with residual symptoms despite the use of deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN DBS) and medical and rehabilitative ...
Martin A. Horn +7 more
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Use and usability of custom-made orthopedic shoes [PDF]
, 2010 The goal of this study was to investigate the use of custom-made orthopedic shoes (OS) and the association between the use of OS and the most relevant aspects of their usability.
Geertzen, Jan H.B. +4 more
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The influence of barefoot and barefoot inspired footwear on the kinetics and kinematics of running in comparison to conventional running shoes. [PDF]
, 2012 Barefoot running has experienced a resurgence in footwear biomechanics literature, based on the supposition that it serves to reduce the occurrence of overuse injuries in comparison to conventional shoe models.
Andrew Greenhalgh +14 more
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Immediate Effect of Orthopedic Insoles, Shoes, and Taping on Selected Ground Reaction Force Variables, Impact, and Loading Rate During Walking in Athletes with Flexible Flatfoot [PDF]
Journal of Paramedical Science and RehabilitationPurpose:Various methods such as exercises, orthotic insoles, and shoes have been recommended to manage flexible flatfoot deformity, however, there are still challenges in determining their superiority.
M.R Jahani, H Sadeghi, R Yousefian Molla
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