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Hi everyone,
I was asking myself a question and I couldn't answer it. Why do we always evaluate the effect of foot orthoses walking straight forward? When you wear foot orthoses, you don't always walk like this. You always change direction, you do lateral step, you rotate, you stop suddenly... The question is, why don't we quantify the effect of foot orthoses doing those tasks? Isn't it more representative of real life?
Maybe that's why the effect of foot orthoses isn't so good on lower limb kinematics?
Maybe that's why the gap between custom-made and prefab orthose is small?
Maybe the effect on muscular activity will increase?

I've looked for article evaluating any of those task and I found nothing. Do you know any good article? Is quantifying the effect of foot orthoses doing those tasks a good idea or my brain has shut down because it's friday night?
Thank you
Gab Moisan

 

Hi Gab,
Very little work done in that direction, as far as I'm aware of. Perhaps it's because we have such a hard time quantifying what orthoses do, even when walking on the straight and level?
Best wishes,
DB