Special footwear designed for pregnant women and its effect on kinematic gait parameters during pregnancy and postpartum period

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14510/20:00115626

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232901" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232901</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232901" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0232901</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Special footwear designed for pregnant women and its effect on kinematic gait parameters during pregnancy and postpartum period

Original language description

During pregnancy, an array of changes occurs in women body to enable the growth and development of the future baby and the consequent delivery. These changes are reflected in the range of motion of trunk, pelvis, lower limbs and other body segments, affect the locomotion and some of these changes may persist to the postpartum period. The aim of this study was to describe the changes affecting the gait during pregnancy and to determine the effect of tested footwear on kinematic gait characteristics during pregnancy as previous studies indicate that special orthopaedic insoles and footwear might be useful in prevention of the common musculoskeletal pain and discomfort related to pregnancy. Participants from the control group (n = 18), without any intervention, and the experimental group (n = 23), which was wearing the tested shoes, were measured at their 14, 28 and 37 gestational weeks and 28 weeks postpartum to capture the complete pregnancy-related changes in gait. The gait 3D kinematic data were obtained using Simi Motion System. The differences between the control and experimental group at the first data collection session in most of the analysed variables, as well as relatively high standard deviations of analysed variables indicate large individual differences in the gait pattern. The effect of tested footwear on kinematic gait pattern changes may be explained by its preventive effect against the foot arches falling. In the control group, changes associated previously with the foot arches falling and hindfoot hyperpronation were observed during advanced phases of pregnancy and postpartum, e.g. increase in knee flexion or increase in spinal curvature. For the comprehensive evaluation of the tested footwear on pregnancy gait pattern, future studies combining the kinematic and dynamic plantographic methods are needed. (C) 2020 Gimunová et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30105 - Physiology (including cytology)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLoS One

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

"e0232901"

UT code for WoS article

000537475000025

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85084607354