Local plantar pressure relief in therapeutic footwear: Design guidelines from finite element models

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1798-1806

  Erdemir, Ahmet ^a   Saucerman, Jeffrey J ^b   Lemmon, David ^c   Loppnow, Bryan ^c   Turso, Brie ^d   Ulbrecht, Jan S ^c   Re Cavanagh, Peter ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element model; Footwear; Insole; Midsole; Plantar pressure; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT;

LOAD REDISTRIBUTION; PLANTAR PRESSURES (PP); PLASTAZOTE MEDIUM; THERAPEUTIC FOOTWEAR;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; METATARSAL BONE; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOE; SIMULATION; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DIABETIC FOOT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FOOT; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE; SHOES; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 22044452422     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2004.09.009     Document Type: Article

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