BACKGROUND There is no consensus on the precise rocker shoe outsole design that will optimally reduce plantar pressure in people with diabetes. This study aimed to understand how peak plantar pressure is influenced by systematically varying three design features which characterise a curved rocker shoe: apex angle, apex position and rocker angle. METHODS A total of 12 different rocker shoe des...

BACKGROUND A suggested link between ambulatory mechanics and injury development has resulted in significant interest the development of footwear to change locomotion patterns. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that there will be significant changes in the kinematics and kinetics at the ankle and minimal changes at the knee and hip in the mechanics of running in a shoe with a ...

What: We are exploring the use of a shoe-mounted camera as a sensory system for wearable computing. We are developing a system called Platform Shoe which is useful for gait analysis, obstacle detection, and context recognition [2]. Platform Shoe uses visual information alone to detect periods of stability and motion during walking – no inertial sensor is required. In the stable phase of walking...

Horse shoe shaped lipoma of the upper extremity is a very rare entity. We present a case of 45 years old female who presented with painless progressive swelling over the distal forearm and tingling and numbness over the ulnar nerve territory. MRI and surgical exploration showed a horse shoe shaped multilobulated lipoma encasing the distal ulna. The mass was excised in toto, and the sensory alte...

Plantar heel pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal conditions affecting the foot and it is commonly experienced by older adults. Contoured foot orthoses and some heel inserts have been found to be effective for plantar heel pain, however the mechanism by which they achieve their effects is largely unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of foot orthoses and heel i...

The important technological and economic advantages have expanded the use of shoe press technology to the dewatering of all paper products from pulp to tissue. Whereas the development of NipcoFlex technology began in packaging paper machines 20 years ago, this technology can today be found in virtually all applications for the mechanical dewatering of the paper web in new and modernized product...

In this paper, we propose the mouse to control a computer with a shoe called IPFM: intelligent pressure foot-mouse. It is mainly composed of five parts including pressure sensor (FSR) embedded in a shoe, 3-axis acceleration sensor in front of shoe to measure a foot motion, computing module (FPGA), wireless communication module and visualization module (LABVIEW). From construction of the five pa...