Abstract
This paper presents the key testing and analysis results of an investigation on the effect of heel height on the plantar pressure over different foot areas in jogging. It is important in improving the understanding of jogging with high heels and damage/injury prevention. It can also potentially guide the development of suitable/adaptive exercise schemes in between daily activities with high heels. In this work, plantar pressure data were collected from 10 habituated healthy female subjects (aged 21–25 years) at their natural jogging speed with three different conditions: flat heeled shoes (0.8 cm), low heeled shoes (4.0 cm), and high heeled shoes (6.6 cm). Data analysis showed significantly differences in plantar pressure distribution associated with the heel heights with increased pressure in the first metatarsal region and decreased pressure in the lateral metatarsal and midfoot sections. However, there is no significant alteration of plantar pressure in the central area of the forefoot with jogging gait.
Highlights
According to surveys on footwear, between 39% and 69% of women wear high heels on a daily basis [1, 2]
Another distinct difference reported is that peak pressure with positive correlation to the heel height shifting from the lateral forefoot to medial forefoot: from the area of 3rd, 4th and 5th metatarsal head to 1st and 2nd metatarsal head [11, 13, 15, 16]
It is clearly shown that jogging with high heeled shoes has significantly increased the maximum force in big toe (BT) and M1 regions (p < 0.05)
Summary
According to surveys on footwear, between 39% and 69% of women wear high heels on a daily basis [1, 2]. It is suggested that walking with high heels leads to changes in load distribution beneath the feet, increase of the foot bone internal stress [11, 12], decrease of the contact area and transfer of the center of pressure from midfoot to forefoot [12,13,14] Another distinct difference reported is that peak pressure with positive correlation to the heel height shifting from the lateral forefoot to medial forefoot: from the area of 3rd, 4th and 5th metatarsal head to 1st and 2nd metatarsal head [11, 13, 15, 16]. Most of these works were based slow space walking, while issues on potential effects of high heel on high
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