Abstract
Current medical procedures used to obtain data needed for foot rehabilitation and consequently, improvement of gait ability, provide only limited information regarding the efficiency of a specific treatment. The present study provides a set of biomechanical tools to support physical therapists in evaluation of foot treatments, by integrating plantar pressure measurements, skeletal radiographic imaging, surface EMG recording and computational simulations of the mechanical stresses within the foot structure. Physical therapists may even apply the computational modeling approach to evaluate biomechanical status before treatment and compare predicted with actual results, e.g. in terms of gait stability, optimization of the foot-ground pressure, etc.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3164 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings |
| Volume | 4 |
| State | Published - 2000 |
| Event | 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Chicago, IL, United States Duration: 23 Jul 2000 → 28 Jul 2000 |
Keywords
- Biomechanical model
- Gait
- Plantar pressure