Standardizing Methods of Measurement of Foot Shape by Including the Effects of Subtalar Rotation
- 1 July 1981
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Foot & Ankle
- Vol. 2 (1), 30-36
- https://doi.org/10.1177/107110078100200106
Abstract
At the present time, there is no easily performed method of measuring foot shape that can quantitatively differentiate types of feet. We studied 44 feet of individuals with normal appearing asymptomatic feet and flat symptomatic feet to find criteria for measurement of foot shape. We found that measurements of footprints are unreliable. Radiographic methods must include measurements in different positions, or at least specify the position of subtalar rotation to be meaningful, since the height of the arch can change just by rotating the tibia. Traditional measurements of talocalcaneal angles have no precision and are unreproducible.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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