Key result
Miniature shoe-borne load cells successfully measure center of foot pressure and force distribution during gait.
Miniature shoe-borne load cells can be used to measure foot-ground reaction forces and center of foot pressure to assess functional mobility.
May aid portable gait assessment in mobility disorders; leaves open clinical adoption pending larger validation studies.
A knowledge of the function of the foot is essential for an understanding of the mechanics of gait. In particular it is necessary to measure the forces, and their directions, between the foot and the ground. Miniature shoe borne load cells were used to measure the centre of foot pressure of a normal subject, a below knee amputee and a polio patient. An analysis of the resulting force patterns has been found useful as a measure of a subject's functional mobility. This paper describes a system which has been developed to measure and analyse the distribution of the forces acting on the foot of a polio patient, an amputee and group of normal subjects.
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J. P. Paul (1986) studied Gait mechanics in normal subjects, amputees, and polio patients. Miniature shoe borne load cells was evaluated on Measurement of foot-ground reaction forces and centre of foot pressure. Miniature shoe-borne load cells were developed and used to measure the center of foot pressure and force distribution in a polio patient, an amputee, and normal subjects.
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