Long term gait postural characteristics of children with general foot pain using smartphone connected wearable sensors.

ABSTRACT: Whether children's general foot pain related to specific foot posture remains unknown. The aim of the study was to determine long-term dynamic foot posture characteristics in children with general foot pain using smartphone-connected wearable sensors. Over a 30-day period, 94 children (37 girls and 57 boys, mean age 9.3 years) completed the study. Children were grouped according to the recent history of foot pain during walking. Static rearfoot alignment was digitally measured. Long-term gait posture was collected using wearable sensors during 10 m of self-selected speed walking per day. There were 81 children in the asymptomatic group and 13 in the foot pain group. Static and gait parameters showed moderate to strong correlations between left and right, but only the left foot parameters s

SUBMITTER: Feng ZY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11882998 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature