Open AccessThe relationship between paediatric foot posture and body mass – do heavier kids really have flatter feet?
Author(s) -
Evans Angela
Publication year - 2013
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 - 10.1186/1757-1146-6-s1-o12
Subject(s) - medicine , foot (prosody) , rehabilitation , physical medicine and rehabilitation , physical therapy , orthopedic surgery , surgery , philosophy , linguistics
Background The prevailing opinion is that heavier children have flatter feet, a consistent finding of the studies that have addressed this issue. Recently, we queried this observation and postulated that the method of foot posture assessment may influence this finding, as there was no positive relationship between the BMI and FPI-6 scores of 140 school children. Most other studies have used footprint-based measures.