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Functional Effects of Foot Orthoses

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This chapter considers how foot orthoses affect the various aspects of foot biomechanics, from the loads applied to the sole of the foot and how this load is transmitted through plantar soft tissues, through to the effects on joint moments and movement. The importance of understanding how footwear influences the effect of foot orthoses and whether we know which aspects of foot biomechanics change in relation to particular clinical cases is also covered.

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  1. School of Health Sciences, University of Salford, Salford, UK

    Christopher Nester

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  1. Institut for Biomechanics und Orthopedic, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Gert-Peter Brüggemann

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

    Zhigang Deng

  3. McIntosh Consultancy and Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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  5. C-Motion Inc., Germantown, USA

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  6. Movement Analysis Laboratory, Clinic for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery; Center for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery and Spinal Cord Injury;Heidelberg University Hospital, Schlierbacher Landstr. 200a, 69118, Heidelberg, Germany

    Sebastian I. Wolf

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Nester, C. (2018). Functional Effects of Foot Orthoses. In: Handbook of Human Motion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14418-4_78

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