BACKGROUND Low birthweight babies need extra care, and families need to know whether their newborn is low birthweight in settings where many births are at home and weighing scales are largely absent. In the context of a trial to improve newborn health in southern Tanzania, a counselling card was developed that incorporated a newborn foot length measurement tool to screen newborns for low birth ...

Introduction: Anthropology is the science of body sizes evaluation in living people which is applied in both medical and non-medical professions. The main purpose of the study is the evaluation of foot growth from birth to the age of 10 in folk Fars girls of Birjand and to make an archive of the data and to study symmetry based on anthropometry and dermatoglyphy. Methods: In this study, t...

BACKGROUND The navicular drop test is a measure to evaluate the function of the medial longitudinal arch, which is important for examination of patients with overuse injuries. Conflicting results have been found with regard to differences in navicular drop between healthy and injured participants. Normal values have not yet been established as foot length, age, gender, and Body Mass Index (BMI)...

Objective: There are certain situations in obstetric ultrasound such as hydrocephalus, anencephaly, short limb dysplasia, where traditional biometric values cannot be used to assess gestational age. In these situations, we have to use other parameters for the accurate assessment of gestational age. One of the useful parameters is foetal foot length because it is easily accessed and measured eas...

introduction: flat foot is one of the most common disorders which not only influences the performance of the foot, but also affects the alignments of the ankle, knee and hip joints. the performance of flat arched differs from that of normal subjects during walking. however, there is not enough information in the literature regarding the difference between standing stability. moreover, the influ...

The development in technology and informatics in the last decades enables integrated analysis of biomechanical and clinical data and facilitates the understanding of relations between human gait characteristic and different medical conditions of a patient. The aim of the study was to demonstrate the importance of gait temporospatial parameters analysis [opposite foot off, opposite foot contact,...

BACKGROUND The associations between toe grip strength (TGS) and foot structure are not well known, although foot structure is inferred to affect TGS. This study investigated the associations between TGS and hallux valgus angle (HVA), toe curl ability, and foot arch height (FAH). METHODS This study analysed 227, 20 to 79-year-old, community-dwelling participants. TGS, HVA formed by the first m...

The present study aims to reconstruct stature among male and female Shia Muslims of Delhi using lower limb dimensions. To this aim the stature, femur length, tibial length, fibular length, foot length and foot breadth were recorded on each subject using the standard measurement techniques recommended by Martin and Saller 1 The data is composed of 1011 Shia Muslims (503 males and 508 females) wi...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of gender differences in foot shape assists shoe manufactures with designing appropriate shoes for men and women. Although gender differences in foot shapes are relatively known among young men and women, less is known about how the older men and women's feet differ in shape. A recent development in foot shape assessment is the use of 3D foot scanners. To our knowledge this...