Changing the texture of footwear can alter gait patterns

Nurse, Matthew A.; Hulliger, M.; Wakeling, James M.; Nigg, Benno M.; Stefanyshyn, Darren J.

doi:10.1016/j.jelekin.2004.12.003

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“…Based on their experimental results, it was reported that the stride and cadence parameters of the walking pattern are affected by footwear as opposed to walking with barefeet. Moreover, recent studies [11] showed that changing the footwear texture causes changes in the gait pattern. In the studies carried out by Phillips et al [15] to investigate the footwear effects on the performance of gait recognition, a high recognition rate of 78% is reported using a silhouette-based method.…”

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Exploratory factor analysis of gait recognition

Bouchrika

Nixon

2008

2008 8th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face &Amp; Gesture Recognition

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Many studies have now shown that it is possible to recognize people by the way they walk. As yet there has been little formal study of the effects of covariates on the recognition process. We show how these factors can separately affect the walking pattern. Further we assess the contribution and discriminatory significance of the gait dynamics used for recognition. Based on a covariate-based probe dataset of 440 samples, a high recognition rate of 73.4% is achieved using the KN N classifier. This is to confirm that people identification using dynamic gait features is still perceivable with better recognition rate even under the different covariate factors.

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Exploratory factor analysis of gait recognition

Bouchrika

Nixon

2008

2008 8th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face &Amp; Gesture Recognition

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“…surface or texture of the footwear) can influence the sensory feedback from the feet during gait (Watanabe and Okubo 1981;Nurse et al 2005). Dixon and co-workers (Dixon et al 2000) have reported that small alterations in the mechanical properties of running surface (asphalt surface, acrylic sports surface, rubber-modified asphalt surface) can induce changes in human running characteristics.…”

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Adaptational phenomena and mechanical responses during running: effect of surface, aging and task experience

2006

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The goals of the study were to identify adaptational phenomena in running mechanics over a variety of surfaces due to age related changes in the muscle-tendon units (MTUs) capacities, to examine whether running experience is associated with adaptational effects on running mechanics over a variety of surfaces even at old age, and to investigate whether surface condition affects running mechanics. The investigation was executed on 30 old and 19 young including 29 runners and 20 non-active subjects. In a previous study we documented that the older had lower MTUs capacities. In the present study running mechanics were analysed as the same subjects ran at 2.7 m/s over three surfaces having different compliance. Surface condition did not affect centre of mass trajectory, duty factor or joint kinetics (P > 0.01). Older react to the reduced MTUs capacity by increasing duty factor and benefiting from a mechanical advantage for the triceps surae MTU and a lower rate of force generation on all surfaces (P < 0.01). Runners displayed lower average horizontal forces and a higher mechanical advantage for the quadriceps femoris MTU for all surfaces (P < 0.01). The results provided strong evidence on that running strategy remained essentially unchanged over a variety of surfaces. Adaptive improvements in running mechanics due to task experience were present for all surfaces and did not depend on age. We further concluded that older adults were able to recalibrate their running strategy to adjust the task effort to the reduced MTUs capacities in a feedforward control manner for a variety of mechanical environments.

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“…Only one study delivered a footwear intervention in an environment that was representative of the participants' usual treatment. Internal validity (bias) (items [14][15][16][17][18][19][20] was well reported for most articles, in particular making reference to appropriate statistical analyses, use of valid and reliable outcome measures, and compliance with the footwear intervention. However, ten studies did not indicate whether an attempt was made to mask participants to the footwear intervention.…”

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“…7,17 Footwear interventions that provide nonmechanical tactile stimulation, such as textured insoles, may alter the rate of discharge from mechanoreceptors or spatiotemporal firing patterns of populations of sensory afferents located in the feet. 18 We know that plantar mechanoreceptors are perceptive to stimuli such as stroking, indenting, and stretching of the skin due to contact with a surface 19 and to changes in the acceleration or location of foot pressure. 20 Therefore, footwear interventions that provide plantar tactile stimulation could provide the central nervous system with vital information regarding the location of peak foot pressure relative to alterations in upright body position.…”

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Footwear Interventions

Hatton

Rome

Dixon

et al. 2013

Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association

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Footwear interventions, including shoe insoles and foot orthoses, have the capacity to enhance balance control and gait in older people. This review assessed the evidence for the effect of footwear interventions on static and dynamic balance performance and gait in older populations and explored proposed theories for underlying sensorimotor and mechanical mechanisms. We searched the Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL (the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), and AMED databases and conducted hand searches. Of 115 relevant articles screened, 14 met the predefined inclusion criteria. Articles were grouped into one of three categories based on balance task (static balance performance during quiet standing, dynamic balance performance during walking, and dynamic balance performance during perturbed standing or functional tasks) and were scored for methodological quality using the Downs and Black Quality Index tool. Footwear interventions seem to alter underlying strategies controlling static and dynamic movement patterns through a combination of sensorimotor and mechanical mechanisms in older people, including those with chronic sensory and musculoskeletal conditions. Evidence shows a consistent trend toward footwear interventions markedly improving lateral stability measures, which are predictors of falls in the elderly. In-depth investigation of neurophysiologic responses to footwear interventions is necessary to help confirm any sensorimotor adaptations. The long-term effects of footwear interventions on balance, gait, and the prevention of falls in older people require further investigation. (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 103(6): [516][517][518][519][520][521][522][523][524][525][526][527][528][529][530][531][532][533] 2013) Health-care professionals frequently prescribe footwear interventions to prevent and alleviate a variety of foot and lower-limb conditions in older people.

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Changing the texture of footwear can alter gait patterns

Cited by 146 publications

References 41 publications

Exploratory factor analysis of gait recognition

Exploratory factor analysis of gait recognition

Adaptational phenomena and mechanical responses during running: effect of surface, aging and task experience

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