Abstract
[Purpose] Taking into consideration the contact condition of the toes during different actions, we investigated the toe functions of a pseudo-floating toe group and a genuine floating toe group, to gain indications for the determination of floating toe. [Subjects] The subjects were 95 adult women. [Method] From images of the toe contact positions taken with a pedoscope, we determined the quiet stance floating toe score, the stance with toe-grip floating score, and the forward transfer floating toe score, and classified the subjects as normal (N group), incomplete contact (IC group), pseudo-floating toe (PF group), and genuine floating toe (GF group). We measured and compared the toe-grip strength and forward transfer ability of the four groups. [Results] We found a significant difference in toe-grip strength between the N and GF groups, and in forward transfer ability between the N and PF groups, the N and GF groups, and the PF and GF groups. [Conclusion] It is necessary to investigate how to discriminate between pseudo-floating to and genuine floating toe.
