This study aimed to estimate the proportion of patients at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) Diabetes Clinic who engage in recommended foot care and footwear practices. Seventy-two participants from the UHWI Diabetes Clinic completed an interviewer-administered questionnaire on foot care practices and types of footwear worn. Participants were a subset of a sex-stratified random ...

A new, continuously-monitoring portable device that monitors the diabetic foot has shown to help in reduction of diabetic foot complications. Persons affected by diabetic foot have shown to be particularly sensitive in the plantar surface; this sensitivity coupled with certain ambient conditions may cause dry skin. This dry skin leads to the formation of fissures that may eventually result in a...

Various shoes are worn by distance runners throughout a training season. This study measured the differences in ground reaction forces between running shoes, racing flats, and distance spikes in order to provide information about the potential effects of footwear on injury risk in highly competitive runners. Ten male and ten female intercollegiate distance runners ran across a force plate at 6....

BACKGROUND Foot and ankle injuries are common in sports, particularly in cleated athletes. Traditionally, the athletic shoe has not been regarded as a piece of protective equipment but rather as a part of the uniform, with a primary focus on performance and subjective feedback measures of comfort. Changes in turf and shoe design have poorly understood implications on the health and safety of pl...

Clinical epidemiology studies suggest the majority of lower limb amputations were preceded by a minor traumatic event, often footwear-related, and lower limb ulcers. To reduce foot trauma and ulcers, the diabetic patient with foot insensitivity has unique footwear needs. To address these needs for patients not requiring custom shoes, the DVA/Seattle Footwear System was developed. The six compon...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate whether the characteristics shoes used by children have an effect on dynamic and static plantar pressure distribution parameters balance in hearing impaired children, compare results with those nonhearing- children.
 Methods: included 136 68 impairment without impairment. Footwear Assessment Score (FAS) applied evaluate children's footwear....

Occupations that involve prolonged periods of standing and maintaining an upright posture are associated with increased risk work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD), particularly the lower back extremities. Identifying factors impact WMSD is therefore important, but foot footwear have been largely ignored to date. Therefore, this study aimed assess prevalence extremity emphasis on health ...

The recovery of footwear impression in crime scenes plays an important role in investigations to corroborate or refute information, or to narrow down the number of suspects. Casting 3D footwear impressions is a long-standing standard to obtain the 3D models of the prints, slowly being replaced by a less invasive method, 3D scanning. In this paper, we present an alternative method based on multi...