Pilot study: Assessing repeatability of the EcoWalk platform resistive pressure sensors to measure plantar pressure during barefoot standing

7th Sensors & their Applications

Zequera, Martha^1 ; Perdomo, Oscar^1 ; Wilches, Carlos^1 ; Vizcaya, Pedro^1

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Departament of Electronics, BASPI Research Group-Diabetic Foot, Carrera 7 No. 40-62, Bogotá, Colombia^1

关键词: Clinical environments;    Contact areas;    Healthy subjects;    Lateral load distributions;    Load distributions;    Pilot studies;    Plantar pressures;    Pressure values;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/450/1/012029/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/450/1/012029

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Plantar pressure provides useful information to assess the feet's condition. These systems have emerged as popular tools in clinical environment. These systems present errors and no compensation information is presented by the manufacturer, leading to uncertainty in the measurements. Ten healthy subjects, 5 females and 5 males, were recruited. Lateral load distribution, antero-posterior load distribution, average pressure, contact area, and force were recorded. The aims of this study were to assess repeatability of the EcoWalk system and identify the range of pressure values observed in the normal foot. The coefficient of repeatability was less than 4% for all parameters considered.