Shoes on Balance, Muscular Endurance and Functional Skills

Eastern Mediterranean University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: Shoes

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03816085

ETK00-2018-0239

Details and patient eligibility

About

In daily life, stiletto heeled shoes which are popularly preferred by women have different heel heights. This study aims to investigate the effects of these differences on balance, muscular endurance and functional skills. Heel heights were chosen as 4 and 10 cm. Other features of shoes (stiletto type/colour etc.) will be same. The tests will be randomly done barefoot, 10 cm, and 4cm shoes.

Full description

The evaluations will include Functional Forward Reach Test for dynamic balance and Single Leg Standing for static balance, heel raising and squat-up test for muscular endurance of plantar flexor and quadriceps muscles, ascending stairs for functional skills.

Measuring distance will be used for Functional reach test and timing will be used for single leg standing test. Timing and repetition number will be used for muscular endurance tests. Timing will be used to climb up 10 stairs with and without heel contact.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• the shoe number will be 37
• women who do not regularly wear high heeled shoes
• women who are familiar with stiletto heeled shoes

Exclusion criteria

• any pain which prevents to participate in tests
• women with cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease, blood pressure disorders, diabetes diseases, neuromuscular diseases.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 3 patient groups

Shoe with 4 cm heel

Experimental group

Description:

Shoes with 4 cm heel will be applied to women. Tests to measure balance, muscular endurance and function will be done while they wear this shoe.

Treatment:

Other: Shoes

Shoe with 10 cm heel

Experimental group

Description:

Shoes with 10 cm heel will be applied to women. Tests to measure balance, muscular endurance and function will be done while they wear this shoe.

Treatment:

Other: Shoes

Without shoes

No Intervention group

Description:

Women will be included in the tests to measure balance, muscular endurance and function without shoes.