Effects of barefoot and footwear conditions on learning of a dynamic balance task: a randomized controlled study

Zech, Astrid; Meining, Stephanie; Hötting, Kirsten; Liebl, Dominik; Mattes, Klaus; Hollander, Karsten

doi:10.1007/s00421-018-3997-6

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“…In line with shorter training studies with a duration of few weeks [ 4 – 6 , 9 , 12 , 25 ], slackline training induced only task-specific improvements in balance performance. This means that, in comparison to a control group, trainees were able to improve performance only for the task they trained.…”

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Three months of slackline training elicit only task-specific improvements in balance performance

2018

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Slackline training is a challenging and motivating type of balance training, with potential usefulness for fall prevention and balance rehabilitation. However, short-term slackline training seems to elicit mostly task-specific performance improvements, reducing its potential for general fall prevention programs. It was tested whether a longer duration slackline training (three months, 2 sessions per week) would induce a transfer to untrained tasks. Balance performance was tested pre and post slackline training on the slackline used during the training, on a slackline with different slack, and in 5 different non-trained static and dynamic balance tasks (N training = 12, N control = 14). After the training, the training group increased their performance more than the control group in both of the slackline tasks, i.e. walking on the slackline (time × group interaction with p < 0.001 for both tasks). However, no differences between groups were found for the 5 non-trained balance tasks, only a main effect of time for four of them. The long-term slackline training elicited large task-specific performance improvements but no transfer to other non-trained balance tasks. The extensive slackline training that clearly enhanced slackline performance did not improve the capability to keep balance in other tasks and thus cannot be recommended as a general fall prevention program. The significant test-retest effect seen in most of the tested tasks emphasizes the need of a control group to adequately interpret changes in performance following balance training.

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Three months of slackline training elicit only task-specific improvements in balance performance

2018

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“…This is important to consider in modern population having in mind that footwear plays an instrumental role in our daily life by providing us with safety and comfort, foot protection, prevention of slipping, and absorbing ambulatory shock, but wearing ill-fitting shoes was shown to lead to foot deformities (including HV) among 60% adults (Klein et al, 2009 ). Children without a habitual footwear developed better motor skills such as jumping than those wearing shoes (Zech et al, 2018 ). Indeed, the incidence of HV is very low in some non-shoe-wearing regions (Lam and Hodgson, 1958 ; Kura et al, 1998 ), indicating that shoe wearing might be the leading cause of HV.…”

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The Role of Footwear in the Pathogenesis of Hallux Valgus: A Proof-of-Concept Finite Element Analysis in Recent Humans and Homo naledi

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Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol.

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“…It has been shown that growing up barefoot, or shod can influence the structure of the foot and the motor performance (D'Août, Pataky, De Clercq, & Aerts, 2009;Hollander, Heidt, Zwaard, Braumann, & Zech, 2017;Zech et al, 2018). The lower foot arch is related to footwear use and its incidence is higher when children wear footwear earlier (Hollander et al).…”

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“…On the other hand, the performance of some movements like running seems affected by the height of the foot arch (Ker, Bennett, Bibby, Kestert, & Alexander, 1986). Also, FMSP of jumping, balancing and sprinting was assessed by some field tests (Zech et al, 2018). Zech et al (2018) found that habitually shod participants had a faster sprint, however, scores on jumping and balance tests were higher in habitually barefoot children and adolescents (Zech et al, 2018).…”

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“…Also, FMSP of jumping, balancing and sprinting was assessed by some field tests (Zech et al, 2018). Zech et al (2018) found that habitually shod participants had a faster sprint, however, scores on jumping and balance tests were higher in habitually barefoot children and adolescents (Zech et al, 2018). Typically, research in this area has focussed on anthropometric variables whereby studies from a biomechanical perspective are sparse.…”

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Effects of shoes on children’s fundamental motor skills performance

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Progression or impediment of fundamental motor skills performance (FMSP) in children depends on internal and environmental factors. Shoes as an environmental constraint are believed to affect these movements as children showed to perform qualitatively better with sports shoes than flip-flop sandals. However, locomotor performance assessments based on biomechanical variables are limited. Therefore, the objective of this experiment was to assess the biomechanical effects of wearing shoes while performing fundamental motor skills in children. Barefoot and shod conditions were tested in healthy children between the age of 4 and 7 years. They were asked to perform basic and advanced motor skills including double-leg stance, horizontal jumps, walking as well as counter-movement jumps, single-leg stance and sprinting. Postural control and ground reaction data were measured with two embedded force plates. A 3D motion capture system was used to analyse the spatiotemporal parameters of walking and sprinting. Findings showed that the parameters of single-and double-leg stance, horizontal and countermovement jump did not differ between barefoot and shod conditions. Most of the spatiotemporal variables including cadence, stride length, stride time, and contact time of walking and sprinting were statistically different between the barefoot and shod conditions. Consequently, tested shoes did not change performance and biomechanics of postural control and jumping tasks; however, the spatiotemporal gait parameters indicate changes in walking and sprinting characteristics with shoes in children. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Effects of barefoot and footwear conditions on learning of a dynamic balance task: a randomized controlled study

Cited by 25 publications

References 35 publications

Three months of slackline training elicit only task-specific improvements in balance performance

Three months of slackline training elicit only task-specific improvements in balance performance

The Role of Footwear in the Pathogenesis of Hallux Valgus: A Proof-of-Concept Finite Element Analysis in Recent Humans and Homo naledi

Effects of shoes on children’s fundamental motor skills performance

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