Impact of Sex and Velocity on Plantar Pressure Distribution during Gait: A Cross-Sectional Study Using an Instrumented Pressure-Sensitive Walkway.

ABSTRACT: In-shoe systems and pressure plates are used to assess plantar pressure during gait, but additional tools are employed to evaluate other gait parameters. The GAITRite^® system is a clinical gait evaluation tool. Extensive literature is available for spatiotemporal parameters, but it is scarce for relative plantar pressure data. Therefore, we investigated whether, when controlling for age, the GAITRite^® system is able to distinguish the effects of walking velocity on plantar pressure parameters in six plantar regions in a large sample of adults. Participants (83 women and 87 men, aged 18-85 years) walked at three self-selected velocities (slow, preferred, fast) on a 6-m long GAITRite^® walkway. Relative peak pressure, pressure-time integral, peak time and cont

SUBMITTER: Leyh C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9781928 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature