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Research on MBT / Toning Shoes / Unstable Shoes

Discussion in 'Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses' started by NewsBot, May 18, 2012.

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    How do rocker-sole shoes influence the knee adduction moment in people with knee osteoarthritis? An analysis of biomechanical mechanisms
    Elizabeth G. Madden, Crystal O. Kean, Tim V. Wrigley, Kim L. Bennell, Rana S. Hinman
    Jnl Biomech Article in Press
     
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    Effects of unstable footwear on gait characteristic: A systematic review
    Maede Farzadi et al
    The Foot; Article in Press
     
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    Unstable rocker shoes promote recovery from marathon-induced muscle damage in novice runners
    Kento Nakagawa, et al
    Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports; 17 May 2017
     
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    Training Shoes do not Decrease the Negative Work of the Lower Extremity Joints
    Satoru Hashizume et al
    Int J Sports Med
     
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    Effect of unstable shoes on trunk posture during standing and gait in chronic low back pain
    Anne Tabard-Fougère et al
    Mov Sport Sci/Sci Mot, Publication ahead of print
     
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    The external force associated with callus formation under the first metatarsal head is reduced by wearing rocker sole shoes.
    Amemiya A, Okonogi R, Yamakawa H, Susumu K, Jitsuishi T, Sugawara H, Tanaka YL, Komiyama M, Mori T.
    Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2017 Jul;2017:4487-4490. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037853.
     
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    Influence of anterior load carriage on lumbar muscle activation while walking in stable and unstable shoes
    Frederik Petri Svenningsena, Emma Kaalunda, Tine Åkær Christensena, Per Hedeager Helsinghoffa, Nanett Yoo-Jin-Bruun Gregersena, Uwe Gustav Kerstinga, Anderson Souza Oliveirab, ,
    Human Movement Science; Volume 56, Part B, December 2017, Pages 20–28
     
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    Effect of Rocker Soled Shoe Design on Walking Economy in Females with Pes Planus.
    DHYANI, MANVI; SINGLA, DEEPIKA; AHMAD, IRSHAD; ALI, KAMRAN; VERMA, SHALINI; HUSSAIN, M. EJAZ
    Journal of Clinical & Diagnostic Research . Sep2017, Vol. 11 Issue 9, p1-4. 4p.
     
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    Effect of Rocker Soled Shoe Design on Walking Economy in Females with Pes Planus.
    Dhyani M et al
    J Clin Diagn Res. 2017 Sep
     
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    Effects and underlying mechanisms of unstable shoes on chronic low back pain: a randomized controlled trial
    Juan Francisco Lisón, Borja Ortega-Santana, Álvaro Antón-Nogués, ...
    Clinical Rehabilitation January 14, 2018
     
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    Press Release:
    ROCKER BOTTOM SHOES HELP REDUCE CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN
    Researchers of the Sports Physiotherapy master’s degree at Valencia’s CEU Cardenal Herrera university have confirmed, in a new study of their research work into back pain, that unstable shoes improve the strength of back muscles in order to maintain balance and stability when walking. This muscular strengthening contributes to reducing low-intensity chronic low back pain, which can be disabling for those who suffer it. The results of this new study, headed by CEU UCH teachers Juan Francisco Lisón and Pablo Salvador, co-authors of the first international study on this matter, have been published in the Q1 edition of scientific magazine Clinical Rehabilitation.

    As the coordinator of the CEU UCH master’s degree, Pablo Salvador, explains, “patients with chronic low back pain are usually advised to perform exercises to strengthen the muscles in their back, which improve stability of the spine in the lower back area, although it is always hard to make sure they comply with this type of exercises. What this new study shows is that the use of unstable shoes for several hours during a patient’s day-to-day life, without any other specific exercises, effectively contributes to the muscular strengthening of their back and improves the degree of curvature of the spine in the lumbar area, thus helping to reduce chronic pain.”

    Forty patients with low-intensity chronic low back pain took part in the CEU UCH’s study. Half of them wore this type of shoes with curved soles for four weeks, and the other half used their normal shoes. Researchers evaluated the degree of activation of the back muscles that stabilise the lumbar area with electromyography, specifically, the rectus abdominis, external oblique and internal oblique of the abdomen, as well as the erector spinae.

    The research team, comprised of teachers and students of the master’s degree, also evaluated the curvature degree of the lower spine while wearing rocker bottom shoes, compared to ones with flat soles. These physical results were then contrasted with the degree of pain and disability expressed by the patients, using the internationally-validated Roland-Morris Disability questionnaire.

    Pioneering study
    CEU UCH teacher Pablo Salvador is the author of the first doctoral thesis on the subject, under the leadership of teacher Juan Francisco Lisón. And both are co-authors of the previous study published in the European Journal of Physical Rehabilitation and Medicine. They stress that the results of their latest work, now published in Clinical Rehabilitation, “have allowed us to confirm that everyday use of rocker bottom shoes for several hours a day reduces the disability suffered by patients with chronic low back pain. The next step is to increase the number of participants and confirm these effects over a longer period of time in future studies within this same line of research of the Master of Sports Physiotherapy degree of the CEU UCH.”

    CEU UCH teachers Pablo Salvdaor, of the Department of Physiotherapy, Juan Francisco Lisón and Julio Doménech, of the Department of Medicine of the CEU UCH have collaborated with Daniel Sánchez Zuriaga, of the Anatomy Department of the Universitat de València along with CEU UCH Sports Physiotherapy master’s degree graduates Borja Ortega Santana, Álvaro Antón Nogués, Palmy González Requena and Cristina Vera Hervás, who crafted their End Of Master’s Degree projects based on the results of this research, financed by the CEU Cardenal Herrera University and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III of Madrid.

    The study of chronic low back pain and the physical exercise strategies for appropriate rehabilitation are one of the lines of research of the Sports Physiotherapy master’s degree at the CEU UCH, the first of its kind in the Valencia region. Thanks to scientific approach, training within this master’s degree is centered on the prevention and reeducation after sports injuries, always from critical analysis on the level of scientific evidence of interventions used in clinical practice by physical therapists.
     
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    The Daily Mails spin on this press release:
    Revealed: The shoes that CAN help solve lower back pain as well as work out your thighs and core, claim scientists
     
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    Unstable footwear as a speed-dependent noise-based training gear to exercise inverted pendulum motion during walking
    Frédéric Dierick, Anne-France Bouché, Mikaël Scohier, Clément Guille & Fabien Buisseret
    Journal of Sports Sciences: 15 May 2018
     
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    An entropy approach for evaluating adaptive motor learning processes while walking with unstable footwear
    Michael Buchecker et al
    Human Movement Science; Volume 60, August 2018, Pages 48–56
     
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    Effects of unstable shoes on trunk muscle activity in patients with chronic low back pain
    P. Salvador-Coloma et al
    Gait and Posture; Article in Press
     
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    Effect of Different Placement of Heel Rockers on Lower-Limb Joint Biomechanics in Healthy Individuals.
    Maedeh Farzadi, Zahra Safaeepour, Hoda Nabavi, Masumeh Bagherzadeh Cham, and Mohammad Ebrahim Mousavi
    Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association: May 2018, Vol. 108, No. 3, pp. 231-235.
     
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    Impact of rocker sole footwear on plantar pressure distribution during standing and walking in adult obese women.
    Fourchet F
    Disabil Rehabil. 2018 Nov 25:1-4.
     
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    Immediate effects of unstable shoe on myoelectric activity level of selected
    trunk muscles during load lifting

    Mahdi Dehghani et al
    Scientific Journal of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences No.97/ Nov-Des 2018
     
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    The effect of unstable shoe designs on the variability of gait measures
    MonaKhoury-MirebaDeborahSolomonow-AvnonaNimrodRozenbAlonWolfa
    Gait & Posture; 14 January 2019
     
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    A biomechanical assessment of running with hallux unstable shoes of different material stiffness.
    Mei Q et al
    Acta Bioeng Biomech. 2019;21(1):121-128.
     
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    Changes in Contact Pressure at the Lower Extremity Joint with an Unstable Shoe
    Seungju LeeSoo-Won Chae
    International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing: 27 June 2019
     
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    IMPACT ATTENUATION DURING GAIT WEARING
    UNSTABLE VS TRADITIONAL SHOES

    Pedro Pérez-Soriano et al
    European Journal of Human Movement, 2019: 42, 30-41
     
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    Effects of Unstable Shoes on Lower Limbs with Different Speeds
    Ze-ping Wang, Qin-er Qiu , Si-hui Chen, Bi-cheng Chen, Xiao-tong Lv
    Physical Activity and Health, 3(1), 82–88.
     
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    Impact of exercise footwear features on middle-aged and older adults' lower limb muscle activity during gait
    Monoharan, Vivek
    Theses and Dissertations (Doctor of Philosophy) 2019
     
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    Effects of Masai Barefoot Technology Footwear Compared with Barefoot and Oxford Footwear on Gait
    Sevgi Özdinç, Enis Uluçam
    J Am Podiatr Med Assoc. 2021 May 1;111(3)
     
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    Influence of unstable shoes on women with lumbopelvic postpartum pain: randomized clinical trial
    Raquel Díaz-Meco Conde et al
    Sao Paulo Med J. 2021 Jun 11
     
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    Effects of Longitudinal Bending Stiffness of forefoot rocker profile shoes on ankle kinematics and kinetics
    L.van Kouwenhove et al
    Gait & Posture; 20 September 2021
     
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    Nonlinear analysis of dynamic stability in walking with toe-only rocker sole shoes in elderly
    Fatemeh Hemmati et al
    Med Eng Phys. 2022 Jan;99:103738
     
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    The interaction effects of rocker angle and apex location in rocker shoe design on foot biomechanics and Achilles tendon loading
    TonyLin-Wei Chen et al
    Medicine in Novel Technology and Devices
    Volume 13, March 2022, 100111

     
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    The apex angle of the rocker sole affects the posture and gait stability of healthy individuals
    YoshiteruWatanabe et al
    Gait & Posture Volume 86, May 2021, Pages 303-310
     
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    The effect of rocker sole shoes on ground reaction force in the elderly
    Mohammad Taghi Karimi, Fatemeh Hemmati
    Proc Inst Mech Eng H. 2022 May 15
     
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    The effects of unstable surface conditions on lower limb biomechanical parameters during running
    LasseSchrøder et al
    Journal of Biomechanics 3 July 2022, 111214
     
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    Rocker-profile design shoes improve pendular energy recovery in walking with no effects on total mechanical work
    LucaRuggiero et al
    Journal of Biomechanics; 13 October 2022, 111345
     
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    Rocker-profile design shoes improve pendular energy recovery in walking with no effects on total mechanical work
    Luca Ruggiero et al
    J Biomech. 2022 Oct 13
     
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    Effect of Shoes With Toe Rocker Angles of 10 and 15 Degrees Compared to Control Shoes on Plantar Pressure, Force and Contact Surface in Healthy Older Adults: A Clinical Trial
    Najmeh Bagheriankhuzani et al
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    Human-in-the-loop optimization of rocker shoes via different cost functions during walking
    Thijs Tankink et al
    Journal of Biomechanics 28 February 2024, 112028
     
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