Open AccessEffects of extrinsic rearfoot posting in custom foot orthoses on frontal plane kinematics and kinetics
Author(s) -
Telfer Scott,
Abbot Mandy,
Rafferty Daniel,
Woodburn Jim
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of foot and ankle research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.763
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 1757-1146
DOI - 10.1186/1757-1146-5-s1-o8
Subject(s) - coronal plane , foot orthoses , kinematics , physical medicine and rehabilitation , foot (prosody) , medicine , calcaneus , gait , biomechanics , feature (linguistics) , anatomy , surgery , physics , linguistics , philosophy , classical mechanics
Background A regularly prescribed design variable in foot orthoses (FOs) is the addition of an extrinsic rearfoot post, a feature which can be angled medially or laterally and is intended to control movement of the calcaneus during the stance phase of gait [1]. This study aims to investigate whether introducing incremental changes in this feature will produce a linear trend in the user’s frontal plane biomechanical responses, and whether responses vary between normal and pronated feet.