We aim to test how well modern nonhabitual barefoot people can adapt to barefoot and Minimalist Bare Foot Technology (MBFT) shoes, in regard to gait symmetry. 28 healthy university students (22 females/6 males) were recruited to walk on a 10-meter walkway randomly on barefoot, in MBFT shoes, and in neutral running shoes at their comfortable walking speed. Kinetic and kinematic data were collect...

s / Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 23 (2015) A82eA416 A385 639 THE EFFECTS OF SHOES ON KNEE PAIN AND MEDIAL JOINT LOADING IN PERSONS WITH KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW WITH META-ANALYSIS K.D. Gross yz, R. Ferreira de Sousa y, S. Lim y, M.P. LaValley z. yMGH Inst. of Hlth. Professions, Boston, MA, USA; zBoston Univ., Boston, MA, USA Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) is common in the medial k...

[Purpose] The purpose of the current study was to investigate the influence of footwear type on postural sway of hemiparetic stroke patients. [Subjects] Thirty-two stroke patients who were undergoing a rehabilitation program were recruited on a voluntary basis from local rehabilitation unit. [Methods] This study had a single-group repeated-measures design. The Good Balance system was used to me...

This paper formalizes the idea of reasoning about the knowledge of another agent by \putting oneself on the other's shoes," and then attributing to the other agent the conclusions that follows from that. We call this form of reasoning empathy. We formalize empathy for monotonic knowledge and show that the same principles would apply to nonmonotonic knowledge, that is reasoning about the knowled...

BACKGROUND While minimalist running shoes may have an influence on running biomechanics and on the incidence of overuse injuries, the term "minimalist" is currently used without standardisation. The objectives of this study were to reach a consensus on a standard definition of minimalist running shoes, and to develop and validate a rating scale that could be used to determine the degree of mini...

This article addresses the love for shoes by the perspective of design and emotion. Reviewing the footwear history, we realize that it did not take too long for the shoes start to have new functions, aesthetic and symbolic, which eventually came to have greater relevance in the acquisition of women's shoes. Today, these outweigh the importance of physical comfort for many women, that once feeli...

INTRODUCTION: Osteoarthritis of the knee joint most often starts at the medial compartment, presumably due to its higher loading [1]. Several conservative methods exist to unload the medial compartment, such as the use of valgus braces, canes and laterally wedged shoes. Several studies have shown that the external adduction moment, which is associated with medial compartment load, is reduced by...

Hygiene properties of leather shoes, which has great influence on health and comfort, mainly contains air permeability, water vapor permeability, hygroscopicity, heat preservation and antimicrobial ability. The developing situation of test technology on hygiene properties of leather shoes is summarized. Natural leather has excellent hygiene properties for its collagen fibers, each hygiene prope...