Abstract
We often make use of the shoe insoles to reform lower limb alignment.
But that mechanism is not so distinct. In this study, we evaluate the effect of the shoe insoles in clinical results and the three dimensional gait analysis.
Thirty-three patients (20 males, 13 females, mean age: 14.9) have sports injuries of the lower limbs. The shoe insoles were effective for 27 (78.8%).
Three dimensional gait analysis was carried out to four patients (3 male, 1 female, mean age: 14.7) and five (4 male, 1 female, mean age: 24) who have no lower limb injuries. We compared no shoe insole and on shoe insole. Between those, we did not find differences of the knee flexion angle in frontal view from heel strike to weight bearing max., and there was no fixed tendency for the time from heel strike to weight bearing max. But there was a tendency for the knee flexion angle in sagittal view from heel strike to weight bearing max. to increase.
We thought that the shoe soles are associated with the increase of knee flexion angle in sagittal view.
