Pressure measurement devices: from technical assessment to clinical performance

Materials and methods Three commercial PMDs were first assessed and then compared during barefoot walking: PMDa and PMDb resistive technology, 1sens/cm – were assessed onsite, while PMDc – capacitive technology, 4sens/cm was tested on-the-bench and on-site [1]. The PMDs were aligned on the floor to capture successive at-regimen steps of the left foot of one trained volunteer; 10 complete steps were acquired in both directions for each PMD; data were temporally normalised and averaged; main kinetic parameters were extracted.