Everyday Activity Shoes: a Quantification of Impact Forces While Walking

NCT ID: NCT04197362

Last Updated: 2024-05-09

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: TERMINATED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 6 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-10-19
• Study Completion Date: 2023-12-13

Brief Summary

This study aims to directly compare traditional everyday activity shoes (ASICS, Nike) with a shoe created to be flatter, less cushioned, and with less cradling of the foot (OESH shoe).

Detailed Description

This study addresses a common question in popular media: what attributes of traditional everyday activity shoes (Nike, New Balance, etc.) make a shoe better or worse. There have been several peer-reviewed studies aimed to answer this by calculating forces and torques at the ankles, knees, and hips while subjects wore shoes with different properties. Such characteristics include heel size, cushioning and side-to-side cradling of the foot. Interestingly, most studies have shown that the lack of a heel, less cushioning, and less cradling of the foot actually improve the biomechanics related to forces and torques, thus decreasing wear and tear on the cartilage and bones of the leg. Wear and tear on cartilage and bone may predispose patients to a bone condition called "osteoarthritis", which is a disease where bones become damaged from rubbing on each other with breakdown of a cartilage "cushion". This study thus aims to directly compare traditional everyday activity shoes (ASICS, Nike) with a shoe created to be flatter, less cushioned, and with less cradling of the foot (OESH shoe).

Conditions

Impact Forces

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

ASICS Women's Gel-Venture 6 Running-Shoe

ASICS Women's Gel-Venture 6 Running-Shoe

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Evaluation

Intervention Type: OTHER

Subjects will be asked to walk across the gait laboratory floor at their self-selected walking speed. They will complete a 3-5 minute warm up period, as it was found to produce stable estimates of kinetic parameter mean values during treadmill activity. The positions of each marker will be recorded through the motion capture system. Ground reaction force will be obtained in real time from the gait laboratory force plates as marker dimensions are recorded. For walking data, two trials of 15 seconds each will be recorded. The second trial will be a redundancy in the setting of potential significant marker dropout.

Nike Air Max 270

Nike Air Max 270

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Evaluation

Intervention Type: OTHER

Subjects will be asked to walk across the gait laboratory floor at their self-selected walking speed. They will complete a 3-5 minute warm up period, as it was found to produce stable estimates of kinetic parameter mean values during treadmill activity. The positions of each marker will be recorded through the motion capture system. Ground reaction force will be obtained in real time from the gait laboratory force plates as marker dimensions are recorded. For walking data, two trials of 15 seconds each will be recorded. The second trial will be a redundancy in the setting of potential significant marker dropout.

La Vida+

La Vida+

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Evaluation

Intervention Type: OTHER

Subjects will be asked to walk across the gait laboratory floor at their self-selected walking speed. They will complete a 3-5 minute warm up period, as it was found to produce stable estimates of kinetic parameter mean values during treadmill activity. The positions of each marker will be recorded through the motion capture system. Ground reaction force will be obtained in real time from the gait laboratory force plates as marker dimensions are recorded. For walking data, two trials of 15 seconds each will be recorded. The second trial will be a redundancy in the setting of potential significant marker dropout.

Interventions

Evaluation

Subjects will be asked to walk across the gait laboratory floor at their self-selected walking speed. They will complete a 3-5 minute warm up period, as it was found to produce stable estimates of kinetic parameter mean values during treadmill activity. The positions of each marker will be recorded through the motion capture system. Ground reaction force will be obtained in real time from the gait laboratory force plates as marker dimensions are recorded. For walking data, two trials of 15 seconds each will be recorded. The second trial will be a redundancy in the setting of potential significant marker dropout.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Women between the ages of 18-65
• Women who identify as "healthy"
• Women who run or walk for exercise more than three times per week
• Women in the Atlanta, Georgia area

Exclusion Criteria

• Individuals with history of significant musculoskeletal pathology
• Individuals with musculoskeletal injury at time of testing
• Individuals unable to consent
• Individuals outside of the ages 18-65
• Individuals who are prisoners
• Individuals who do not speak or write in English

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 65 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Emory University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

David T. Burke

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

David Burke, MD, MA

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Emory University

Locations

Emory Rehabilitation Hospital

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

IRB00112113

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id