title: [Plantar pressure platform as clinical assesment tool in the analysis of foot posture with the foot posture index].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The foot posture index is a static measurement that splits up the foot posture into neutral, pronatus and supinatus. However, the relation between the foot posture and the plantar pressure standards is not well known. For this, the objective of this research is to check the relationship between the foot posture and plantar pressure standard. SUBJECTS AND MATERIAL: 144 participants (101 women and 43 men), mean age 25.4 ± 6.3 years, were measured for the FPI. The pedobarometric measurement was made with the plantar pressure platform, we measured total surface (cm2), mean pressure (kPa) and maximum pressure (kPa), these measurements were correlated with the FPI measurements.
  
  
  RESULTS
  288 feet were analysed with regard to the correlation between point 5 of FPI (medial arch height) and the plantar surface total area (p = 0.038): lower arch height and supinated foot are related to the maximum pressure points with p = 0.029. The total contact surface can be determined with the final score of the FPI, the scores of FPI 3, 5 and 6 FPI (r2 = 0.059, p < 0.001) with a 5.9 % prediction.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The supinatus foot is correlated statistically significantly through the maximum pressure and the plantar surface with the pronatus foot.
authors.affiliation: Fachbereich für Podologie und Fußpflege, Málaga Universität, Spanien.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gijon-Nogueron
authors.affiliation: Fachbereich für Podologie und Fußpflege, Málaga Universität, Spanien.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lopezosa-Reca
authors.affiliation: Fachbereich für Podologie und Fußpflege, Málaga Universität, Spanien.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Cervera-Marin
authors.affiliation: Fachbereich für Podologie und Fußpflege, Universität Extremadura, Plasencia, Spanien.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martinez-Nova
authors.affiliation: Fachbereich für Podologie und Fußpflege, Universität Extremadura, Plasencia, Spanien.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sanchez-Rodriguez
authors.affiliation: Fachbereich für Podologie, Artevelde University College, Ghent, Belgien.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Van Alsenoy
authors.affiliation: Fachbereich für Podologie, Artevelde University College, Ghent, Belgien.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: De Schepper
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005260:Female; D005528:Foot / Q000502:physiology*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008365:Manometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010808:Physical Examination / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards; D004856:Postural Balance / Q000502:physiology*; D011187:Posture / Q000502:physiology*; D011403:Pronation / Q000502:physiology*; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013484:Supination / Q000502:physiology*; D016474:Weight-Bearing / Q000502:physiology