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A technique to determine the load distribution in human feet *
Author(s) -
MORETON D. N.,
MAXTED M. J.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
strain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.477
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1475-1305
pISSN - 0039-2103
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-1305.1979.tb00302.x
Subject(s) - forefoot , load distribution , foot (prosody) , heel , load bearing , weight bearing , structural engineering , mathematics , presentation (obstetrics) , engineering , medicine , surgery , linguistics , philosophy , complication
The human foot supports the body weight at 11 points on the foot, namely the five toes, the five metatarsal heads and the heel. The need arose to determine the load carried by each of the 10 load bearing points on the forefoot. A rig developed to satisfy this need is described, together with typical results obtained. The load distributions of a total of 44 ‘clinically normal’ feet were obtained and a statistical presentation is given which results in the definition of a ‘normal’ load distribution.