The interdependency of peak pressure and pressure-time integral in pressure studies on diabetic footwear: No need to report both parameters

Gait and Posture

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-5

  Waaijman, R ^a   Bus, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diabetic foot; Footwear; In shoe plantar pressure; Peak pressure; Pressure time integral

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC PATIENT; FEMALE; FOOT SOLE; FOOT ULCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOE; TIME;

BIOMECHANICS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; FOOT; FOOT DEFORMITIES, ACQUIRED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; SHOES; WALKING;

EID: 84855921317     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2011.07.006     Document Type: Article

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