title: [Preliminary report on a method for establishing the relation between the surface of a plantar load and the total projective surface of the foot: index of plantar load (IPL)].
abstract: The creation of a Plantar Load Index (PLI) is proposed, with a view to studying the plantar surface of the foot from a morphofunctional standpoint. This Index would provide information on the centesimal relationship between the surface load values and the total projective values of the foot, expressed in cm2. The measurements in question are homogeneous in nature and may, therefore, be easily related to one another. To obtain these values, the two surfaces are visualized, photographed together in a single photogram and analyzed by means of the computerized visual system (Zeiss Videoplan). Visualization is obtained by means of a thermochromatic variation plate which is placed on the stand of a reflexion podoscope and which is sensitive to the heat of the plantar skin and the suitably emitted infra-red rays. The heat of the skin in contact with the plate shows the load surface. The intra-red rays suitably emitted from above onto the plate and onto the back of the foot produce the general chromatic variation of the plate, also showing the perimetrical outline of the foot. The picture to be photographed will, then, be as follows: a continuous black edge formed from the outside by the colouring of the plate produced by the infra-red rays (the perimeter of the foot); more black, extending inwards, in varying degrees, when the skin is not touching the plate (the archer and furrows in the skin); coloured areas inside of the perimeter, showing the load surface.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
mesh_terms: D005528:Foot / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D011312:Pressure; D013499:Surface Properties; D013817:Thermography
vernacular_title: Comunicazione preliminare sul metodo per stabilire il rapporto tra la superficie del carico plantare e la superficie totale proiettiva del piede: indice del carico plantare (ICP).