PaperComparisons of plantar pressures between the elderly and young adults
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2018, Journal of Human EvolutionCitation Excerpt :While there is evidence from plantar pressure studies that indicates the loading of the metatarsal heads differs between adults and young infants typically <3 years in age (e.g., Hennig and Rosenbaum, 1991; Bertsch et al., 2004), it is not entirely clear how older adolescent feet are loaded. Moreover, significant differences in forefoot loading between older adults and young adults (18–24 years) have been observed in some (e.g., Scott et al., 2007) but not all (e.g., Kernozek and LaMott, 1995) plantar pressure research. Given the above studies, the disagreement among researchers as to whether the OH 8 foot belongs to a sub-adult (Leakey, 1961; Susman, 2008; Susman et al., 2011) or an adult (DeSilva et al., 2010), and the fact that it is unknown if relative ranking of metatarsal robusticity would differ between the two developmental states, some sub-adult humans are included in the sample to assess if they express a different pattern from adults.
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