Impact of Footwear on Gait Parameter
A pair of faulty footwear can alter your gait pattern as well as can cause stress on your lower extremity. Study emphasis impact of high heels and flat heels on gait and also highlights pain and aches due to faulty footwear of young female adults. A group
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Impact of Footwear on Gait Parameter Devika Vipin Vaidya, Rauf Iqbal and Archana Bhatnagar
Abstract A pair of faulty footwear can alter your gait pattern as well as can cause stress on your lower extremity. Study emphasis impact of high heels and flat heels on gait and also highlights pain and aches due to faulty footwear of young female adults. A group of 18 females with mean age, height and weight 22.67 ± 1.49 years, 157.65 ± 6.70 cm and 55.72 ± 10.89 kg respectively were selected for the study. Subjects were allowed to walk at self-selected speed for three test conditions, i.e., barefoot walk, flat heel walk, and high heel walk. Their gait was captured by Qualisys Motion Capture System with Oqus infrared camera (6 no.) Sweden. Speed and stride length decreased whereas stride width and double limb support increased. Consumer perspective while purchasing and using footwear was examined on 90 young females, poor choice of footwear negatively influenced the gait pattern. Footwear design is proposed in the study to reduce stress on lower extremity while acquiring natural gait.
Keywords Gait pattern Footwear design Stride width Double limb support
Footwear choice Stride length
D.V. Vaidya (&) A. Bhatnagar S.N.D.T Women’s University, Mumbai, India e-mail: [email protected] A. Bhatnagar e-mail: [email protected] R. Iqbal Ergonomics and Human Factors, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Vihar Lake Road, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400087, India e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018 G.G. Ray et al. (eds.), Ergonomics in Caring for People, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4980-4_1
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1 Introduction Walking, specifically gait is a basic component of daily living and every individual has a unique gait pattern. Gait analysis is a field of biomechanics which systematically measures, analyze, and assess human walking pattern from initial placement of the heel on the ground to placing same heel on the ground for a second time. Indian footwear industry ranks second largest in the world [3]. Footwear protects and supports feet during locomotion; footwear selection is one of an important consideration for comfortable walking. Consumer trends dominate greater sales of female footwear compared to male footwear [3]. Female adults love closet full of footwear be it flats, heels, boots, ballets, sandals, clogs, platforms, wedges, strappy, buckled, lace-ups, peep-toes a woman has desire for all, a great pair of footwear instantly changes their mood for the better. Overall women consider design and fashion rather than health and comfort as their top priorities while purchasing footwear [4]. The purpose of this study was to determine change in gait pattern while wearing flat heel, i.e., flip-flop (1 inch), high heels (4 inch) and comparing it with barefoot with respect to walking speed, stride width, stride length, double limb support, and ground reaction force on young females. Also consumer perspective while buying and discomfort while using footwe
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