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How Shoes With Rocker Soles Affect Walking

NCT00006438 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 46

Last updated 2005-06-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare how 3 special types of shoes with rocker-shaped soles help people with foot deformities to walk better. This study will use modern gait lab techniques to measure the forces on the bottom of the feet and to examine whether there is any effect higher on the leg from the rocker soles.

Conditions

  • Diabetic Feet

Interventions

DEVICE

Shoes with Rocker Soles

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Jacqueline Wertsch, M.D. · Medical College of Wisconsin

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1997-01-31
Completion
1999-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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