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The Effect of Heel Height on Gait and Posture

Author(s) -

Emma Cowley,

Thierry Chevalier,

Nachiappan Chockalingam

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

journal of the american podiatric medical association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.295

H-Index - 58

eISSN - 8750-7315

pISSN - 1930-8264

DOI - 10.7547/0990512

Subject(s) - heel , medicine , cinahl , ankle , gait , physical medicine and rehabilitation , kinematics , foot (prosody) , physical therapy , surgery , anatomy , psychological intervention , linguistics , philosophy , physics , classical mechanics , psychiatry

This article explores relevant full-text literature to reveal the effects of heel height on gait and posture and the kinetics and kinematics of the foot, ankle, knee, hip, and spine. Furthermore, special attention will be given to the implications of increased heel height for clinicians treating locomotor disorders and provide information to aid clinical decision making. Full-text articles accessed from databases including AMED, ASSIA, Blackwell Synergy, BNI, Voyager, CINAHL, ScienceDirect, and Taylor Francis inform the review.

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