Integrated kinematics-kinetics-plantar pressure data analysis: A useful tool for characterizing diabetic foot biomechanics

Gait and Posture

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-26

  Sawacha, Zimi ^a   Guarneri, Gabriella ^b   Cristoferi, Giuseppe ^b   Guiotto, Annamaria ^a   Avogaro, Angelo ^b   Cobelli, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diabetes neuropathy; Foot; Integrated; Kinematics; Kinetics; Multisegments; Plantar pressure; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; FORCE; GAIT; HUMAN; KINEMATICS KINETICS PLANTAR PRESSURE; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PLANTAR DORSIFLEXION; PLANTAR EVERSION; PLANTAR EXTERNAL ROTATION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; WEIGHT BEARING;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; FOOT; GAIT; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PRESSURE; REFERENCE VALUES; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84861969844     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2011.12.007     Document Type: Article

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