The effects of shoe design parameters on rearfoot control in running
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
- Vol. 15 (5) , 376???381-381
- https://doi.org/10.1249/00005768-198315050-00006
Abstract
8 m·s-1. These subjects wore 36 different shoes in combinations of three midsole hardnesses, three heel Dares, and four heel heights. The film data were digitized and used to determine the eversion or inversion of the heel relative to the lower leg throughout foot contact. Because eversion of the foot is a component of pronation it was used as a predictor of how much pronation was occurring. It was found that shoes with soft midsoles (25 durometer, Shore A scale) allowed significantly more maximum pronation (MP) and total rearfoot movement (TRM) than shoes with either medium (35 durometer) or hard (-15 durometer) midsoles. Shoes with 0° heel Dare allowed significantly more MP and TRM than shoes with either 15° or 30° heel flares. Heel height was found to have no significant effect on either MP or TRM. These data provide guidelines for the construction of running shoes designed to limit rearfoot movement. ©1983The American College of Sports Medicine...This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- The Flat FootThe Physician and Sportsmedicine, 1981