Abstract

Summary A model of the foot, derived from the Heidelberg Foot Measurement Method (HFMM) [1], was implemented in order to analyse pathological gait. The present work deals with validation and is based on a comparison between a group of healthy adults and data previously published. Furthermore, the effect of changing the position of some relevant markers was tested. It appeared that these variations can introduce misleading bias in most angles. Conclusions Despite critical location of some markers the consistency of the HFMM was sufficient for obtaining the relevant foot function information. In healthy subjects, most of the projection angles showed not significant differences with the published control data. However the marker placement is to be precisely defined in order to avoid uncertainties and misinterpretations.

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