Open AccessImpact of orthoses on imagined and actual walking
Author(s) -
Puil C,
Janin M
Publication year - 2014
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 - 10.1186/1757-1146-7-s1-a69
Subject(s) - physical medicine and rehabilitation , medicine , biomechanics , rehabilitation , foot (prosody) , physical therapy , physiology , philosophy , linguistics
Background We know that duration between an actual movement and an imaginary one is similar [1]. We wondered if wearing insoles has an impact on those timings, and particularly if different kinds of insoles have a different impact. We do know that walking changes the respond of motor commands [2]. Feet have a real role in walking as we know. Wearing insoles have an effect on the biomechanics of the entire body [3]. Two kinds of corrections exist. Biomechanical insoles correct with higher stimulations than mediation postural ones. The remediation uses different ways of informations regarding the insoles and so is the effective response. To compare we have made for each patient a pair of mediation postural foot orthoses (FosMP) and a pair of biomechanical foot orthoses (FosBM). 10 patients have walked actual 30 feet on physical practice (PP) and imagined walking, mental practice (MP). We have tested them in tree conditions: without insoles (control Ct), with FosMP and with FosBM. We have looked the FosMP/BM modifications through platform’s parameters: speed, speed’s variation and area of center of force; bio-clinical evaluation: posturodynamic test [4] and visual-analogic-scale to evaluated their comfort. All parameters were recorded before (Pre) and after (Post) PP and MP.