background: medical shoes are a solution for the construction and performance related to foot problems. people with healthy feet do not require medical shoes. shoes have different designs and heights and are probably produced with different materials depending on the nature of the required correction. ordering medical shoes, like medicine, is personal for each individual. however, today many co...

Methods and material Twenty-four participants (mean age 21.8 yrs ± 3.5 yrs, height 1.75 m ± 0.09 m and body mass 71.0 kg ± 10.6 kg) were recruited. A marker set consisting of 20 x 10 mm markers was developed to track in-shoe joint kinematics [1]. Reliability and accuracy estimates of calibration marker placement on the shoe were determined. To track inshoe foot motion, 12 mm diameter holes were...

Background Various sizes of implants need to be available during surgery. The purpose of this paper is to compare body height and shoe size with implant sizes in patients who underwent total knee replacement surgery to see which biomarker is a better predictor for preoperative planning to determine implant size. Methods A total of 100 knees, belonging to 50 females and 50 males, were observed...

The aim was to determine the rotational torque occurring at the shoe-natural grass interface during golf swing performance with different clubs, and to determine the influence of handicap and golf shoe design. Twenty-four golfers (8 low 0-7; 8 medium 8-14; and 8 high 15+) performed 5 shots with a driver, 3-iron and 7-iron when 3 shoes were worn: a modern 8 mm metal 7-spike shoe, an alternative ...

OBJECTIVE Intensive Care Units (ICUs) experience higher infection rates due to the severity of illness and frequent use of invasive devices. Use of personal protective equipment reduces the risk of acquiring an infection. This study has been conducted to determine the role of using shoe covers by medical staff and visitors on infection rates, mortality and length of stay in ICU. METHODS It is...

Biomechanical aspects of running injuries are often inferred from external loading measurements. However, previous research has suggested that relationships between external loading and potential injury-inducing internal loads can be complex and nonintuitive. Further, the loading response to training interventions can vary widely between subjects. In this study, we use a subject-specific comput...

The paper describes three applications of industrial robot in shoe production. Two of them – automation of shoe lasting machine and automation of finishing process are extremely difficult to automate and are according to our knowledge first successful automation of the above processes. The focus of the paper is on automatic robot trajectory generation directly from CAD shoe design data. The pap...

Several spring-damper-mass models of the human body have been developed in order to reproduce the measured ground vertical reaction forces during human running (McMahon and Cheng, 1990; Ferris et al., 1999; Liu and Nigg, 2000). In particular, Liu and Nigg introduced at the lower level of their model, i.e. at the interface between the human body and the ground, a nonlinear element representing s...