Open Access2‐Dimensional foot FE models for clinical application in gait analysis
Author(s) -
Scarton Alessandra,
Guiotto Annamaria,
Sawacha Zimi,
Guarneri Gabriella,
Avogaro Angelo,
Cobelli Claudio
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-a73
Subject(s) - medicine , gait , physical medicine and rehabilitation , foot pressure , kinematics , diabetic foot , rehabilitation , gait analysis , foot (prosody) , work (physics) , diabetic neuropathy , plantar pressure , physical therapy , diabetes mellitus , mechanical engineering , engineering , pressure sensor , linguistics , philosophy , physics , classical mechanics , endocrinology
Background Foot ulcerations are one of the most common and invalidating complications which affect the diabetic patients [1,2]. Several two-dimensional (2D) finite element (FE) models of the foot have been developed in the last decades in order to understand what are the causes and to decrease their progress [3-5]. The aim of this work was to create four 2D FE models of an healthy and of a diabetic neuropathic subject integrating kinematic, kinetic and pressure data and to validate them by means of a comparison between experimental and simulated pressure values. These models could represent a tool for clinical applications in order to prevent the development of the diabetic ulcers.