Integrating biomechanical tools to support foot physical therapy
Gefen, A.
Megido-Ravid, M.
Itzchak, Y.
Arcan, M.
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Tel Aviv Univ.;
Abstract
Current medical procedures used to obtain data needed for foot
rehabilitation and consequently, improvement of gait stability, provide
only limited information regarding the efficiency of a specific
treatment. The present study provides a set of biomechanical tools to
support physical therapists in evaluation of foot treatments, by
integrating plantar pressure measurements, skeletal radiographic
imaging, surface EMG recording and computational simulations of the
mechanical stresses within the foot structure. Physical therapists may
even apply the computational modeling approach to evaluate biomechanical
status before treatment and compare predicted with actual results, e.g.
in terms of gait stability, optimization of the foot-ground pressure,
etc
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