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KMID : 0948920120110020089
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Clinical Pain
2012 Volume.11 No. 2 p.89 ~ p.94
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Postural Stabilization Effect of Custom- Made Foot Orthoses in Patients with Subtle Cavus Foot
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Kim Bo-RA
Yi Tae-Im
Han In-soo
Jin Ju-Ryeon
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Abstract
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Objective: To investigate the postural stability of patients with subtle cavus foot using computerized dynamic posturography as compared with that of healthy control group, and to evaluate the effect of custom-made orthoses. Method: Experimental group was consisted of ten patients diagnosed bilateral subtle cavus foot and each subject was prescribed to use custom-made orthoses. The control group was ten age-matched healthy group without any foot pathology. Each subject was made to stand on a single-leg for 20 seconds, using circular-shaped force plate which was specially installed on each of the 4 force plates currently equipped in the Tetrax?. The stability index of both groups was measured with barefoot condition. Experimental group were asked to use custom-made orthoses in order to measure and analyze the stability index in comparison to the preceding experiment. Results: During one-leg standing, subtle cavus foot group showed significantly higher stability index than healthy control group at the bare foot condition in both lower extremities (p＜0.05). After wearing custom-made orthoses, the subtle cavus foot group showed significantly lower stability index in both lower extremities (p＜0.05) compared to bare foot condition. In the comparison of the healthy control group and the patients with subtle cavus foot using orthoses, the stability index did not show any significant difference between the two groups (p＞0.05). Conclusion: The subtle cavus foot group showed the deficit of dynamic postural control during one-leg standing. The custom-made orthoses is effective at improving one-leg standing stability in patients with subtle cavus foot alignment
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KEYWORD
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Subtle cavus foot, Orthoses, Stability, Dynamic balance
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