A prospective study of the effect of foot orthoses composition and fabrication on comfort and the incidence of overuse injuries

Foot and Ankle International

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 462-466

  Finestone, Aharon ^a,b   Novack, Victor ^a,b   Farfel, Alon ^a,b   Berg, Alon ^a,b   Amir, Hagi ^a,b   Milgrom, Charles ^a,c  

^a Israeli Defense Forces Medical Corps ^*

^b MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Comfort; Foot Orthoses; Overuse Injuries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE SPRAIN; ARMY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FOOT DISEASE; FOOT ORTHOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENCE; MALE; MATERIALS; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4143125800     PISSN: 10711007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107110070402500704     Document Type: Article

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