Rollover footwear affects lower limb biomechanics during walking

Forghany, Saeed; Nester, Christopher; Richards, Barry; Hatton, Anna L.; Liu, Anmin

doi:10.1016/j.gaitpost.2013.07.009

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“…Joint moments were expressed as external moments and normalized to the body mass (Nm/kg). The path of the center of pressure (COP, derived from the force plate data) under the footwear was analyzed during the stance phase in running based on the COP position in the anterior-posterior and medial-lateral directions of the global system with respect to locations of the heel and 2 nd toe markers (Forghany et al 2014). …”

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Effects of medially posted insoles on foot and lower limb mechanics across walking and running in overpronating men

Kosonen

Kulmala

Müller

et al. 2017

Journal of Biomechanics

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. The kinematic results showed that MPI reduced the peak forefoot eversion movement in respect to both hindfoot and tibia across walking and running when compared to NORM (p<0.05-0.01). No differences were found in hindfoot eversion between conditions. The kinetic results showed no insole effects in walking, but during running MPI shifted center of pressure medially under the foot (p<0.01) leading to an increase in frontal plane moments at the hip (p<0.05) and knee (p<0.05) joints and a reduction at the ankle joint (p<0.05). These findings indicate that MPI primarily controlled the forefoot motion across walking and running. While kinetic response to MPI was more pronounced in running than walking, kinematic effects were essentially similar across both modes. This suggests that despite higher loads placed upon limp limb during running, there is no need to have a stiffer insoles to achieve similar reduction in the forefoot motion than in walking.3

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Effects of medially posted insoles on foot and lower limb mechanics across walking and running in overpronating men

Kosonen

Kulmala

Müller

et al. 2017

Journal of Biomechanics

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“…Further, the DSP of T1 for rocker shoes was significantly shorter than for Bare, indicating that ankle rotation is induced earlier in rocker-type soles, and increasing the time of simultaneous rear curve rolling (Fig 3Ca') and extended ankle rotation (Fig 3Cb'). In this way the kinetic energy of vertical impact force can be converted to rotational kinetic energy, effectively absorbing the vertical impact force [20, 28, 42, 43]. …”

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Stiffness Effects in Rocker-Soled Shoes: Biomechanical Implications

Lin

Chung

et al. 2017

PLoS ONE

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Rocker-soled shoes provide a way to reduce the possible concentration of stress, as well as change movement patterns, during gait. This study attempts to examine how plantar force and spatio-temporal variables are affected by two rocker designs, one with softer and one with denser sole materials, by comparing them with the barefoot condition and with flat-soled shoes. Eleven subjects’ gait parameters during walking and jogging were recorded. Our results showed that compared with barefoot walking, plantar forces were higher for flat shoes while lower for both types of rocker shoes, the softer-material rocker being the lowest. The plantar force of flat shoes is greater than the vertical ground reaction force, while that of both rocker shoes is much less, 13.87–30.55% body weight. However, as locomotion speed increased to jogging, for all shoe types, except at the second peak plantar force of the denser sole material rocker shoes, plantar forces were greater than for bare feet. More interestingly, because the transmission of force was faster while jogging, greater plantar force was seen in the rocker-soled shoes with softer material than with denser material; results for higher-speed shock absorption in rocker-soled shoes with softer material were thus not as good. In general, the rolling phenomena along the bottom surface of the rocker shoes, as well as an increase in the duration of simultaneous curve rolling and ankle rotation, could contribute to the reduction of plantar force for both rocker designs. The possible mechanism is the conversion of vertical kinetic energy into rotational kinetic energy. To conclude, since plantar force is related to foot-ground interface and deceleration methods, rocker-design shoes could achieve desired plantar force reduction through certain rolling phenomena, shoe-sole stiffness levels, and locomotion speeds.

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“…Other applications also address gait signature analysis. For example, IMMUs are used to determine joint stress in barefoot running [64], landing patterns [30] and vertical loading [29,30,35,45,[65][66][67][68], loading while running barefoot [69], the effects of a high-heeled gait [70], the effects of rollover footwear [71], and the influence of the long-term wearing of unstable shoes [67].…”

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An Overview of Smart Shoes in the Internet of Health Things: Gait and Mobility Assessment in Health Promotion and Disease Monitoring

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New smart technologies and the internet of things increasingly play a key role in healthcare and wellness, contributing to the development of novel healthcare concepts. These technologies enable a comprehensive view of an individual's movement and mobility, potentially supporting healthy living as well as complementing medical diagnostics and the monitoring of therapeutic outcomes. This overview article specifically addresses smart shoes, which are becoming one such smart technology within the future internet of health things, since the ability to walk defines large aspects of quality of life in a wide range of health and disease conditions. Smart shoes offer the possibility to support prevention, diagnostic work-up, therapeutic decisions, and individual disease monitoring with a continuous assessment of gait and mobility. This overview article provides the technological as well as medical aspects of smart shoes within this rising area of digital health applications, and is designed especially for the novel reader in this specific field. It also stresses the need for closer interdisciplinary interactions between technological and medical experts to bridge the gap between research and practice. Smart shoes can be envisioned to serve as pervasive wearable computing systems that enable innovative solutions and services for the promotion of healthy living and the transformation of health care.

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Rollover footwear affects lower limb biomechanics during walking

Cited by 33 publications

References 21 publications

Effects of medially posted insoles on foot and lower limb mechanics across walking and running in overpronating men

Effects of medially posted insoles on foot and lower limb mechanics across walking and running in overpronating men

Stiffness Effects in Rocker-Soled Shoes: Biomechanical Implications

An Overview of Smart Shoes in the Internet of Health Things: Gait and Mobility Assessment in Health Promotion and Disease Monitoring

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