The biomechanical mechanisms that link foot structure to injuries of the musculoskeletal system during gait are not well understood. This study had two parts. The purpose of part one was to determine the relation between clinical rearfoot and forefoot angles and foot angles as they make contact with the ground. The purpose of part two was to determine the effects of large vs. moderate values of...

Human locomotion dynamics has been a topic of interest since the past few decades. In many areas such as as humanoid robot design, gait rehabilitation, diagnosis of pathologies, prosthesis design, sport analysis, and motion cognition, the human locomotion is needed to be properly modelled. Dynamics of human locomotion, and the capability of implementing an accurate human gait simulation can be ...

introduction: shin splint is one of the common injuries in most athletes. although the relationship between abnormal foot posture and shin splint has been reported previously but, the relation between foot posture and shin splint has not been well documented. the aim of this study was to explore the relationship between foot postures in basketball players and the history of shin splint. materia...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Abnormality in the structure of the medial longitudinal arch of the foot is commonly thought to be a predisposing factor to injury. The purpose of this investigation was to compare the reliability and validity of several measurements used to characterize various aspects of the foot, including the medial longitudinal arch. SUBJECTS One hundred two feet (both feet of 51 s...

In this work, we present a model for human leg with prosthetic foot, consisting of rigid bodies the thigh and shank geometrically exact beam prosthesis. The prosthesis is modelled after Össur Vari-Flex® carbon spring foot. individual are connected by joints imposing constraints, mimicking motions joints. A structure preserving variational integrator used to calculate forward dynamic simulation ...

This article presents neurolinguistic data on word stress perception in Cairene Arabic, in comparison to previous results on German and Turkish. The main goal is to investigate how central properties of stress systems such as predictability of stress and metrical structure are reflected in the prosodic processing of words. Cairene Arabic is a language with a regular foot-based word stress syste...

BACKGROUND Foot posture has long been considered to contribute to the development of lower limb musculoskeletal conditions as it may alter the mechanical alignment and dynamic function of the lower limb. This study compared foot posture in people with and without medial compartment knee osteoarthritis (OA) using a range of clinical foot measures. The reliability of the foot measures was also as...

Our concept of the kidney filtration barrier is changing from one of a static sieve into one of a highly dynamic structure regulated through the motility of podocyte foot processes. Inactivation of the small GTPase RhoA in vitro causes hypermotility, whereas activation decreases motility. Wang et al. show that both overactivation and underactivation of RhoA lead to podocyte foot process effacem...