title: INTERVENTION AT THE FOOT-SHOE-PEDAL INTERFACE IN COMPETITIVE CYCLISTS.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Competitive cyclists are susceptible to injury from the highly repetitive nature of pedaling during training and racing. Deviation from an optimal movement pattern is often cited as a factor contributing to tissue stress with specific concern for excessive frontal plane knee motion. Wedges and orthoses are increasingly used at the foot-shoe-pedal-interface (FSPI) in cycling shoes to alter the kinematics of the lower limb while cycling. Determination of the effect of FSPI alteration on cycling kinematics may offer a simple, inexpensive tool to reduce anterior knee pain in recreational and competitive cyclists. There have been a limited number of experimental studies examining the effect of this intervention in cyclists, and there is little agreement upon which FSPI interventions can prevent or treat knee injury. The purpose of this review is to provide a broader review of the literature than has been performed to date, and to critically examine the literature examining the evidence for FSPI intervention in competitive cyclists.
  
  
  METHODS
  Current literature examining the kinematic response to intervention at the FSPI while cycling was reviewed. A multi-database search was performed in PubMed, EBSCO, Scopus, CINAHL and SPORTdiscus. Eleven articles were reviewed, and a risk of bias assessment performed according to guidelines developed by the Cochrane Bias Methods Group. Papers with a low risk of bias were selected for review, but two papers with higher risk of bias were included as there were few high quality studies available on this topic.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seven of the eleven papers had low bias in sequence generation i.e. random allocation to the test condition, only one paper had blinding to group allocation, all papers had detailed but non-standardized methodology, and incomplete data reporting, but were generally free of other bias sources.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Wedges and orthoses at the FSPI alter kinematics of the lower limb while cycling, although conclusions about their efficacy and response to long-term use are limited. Further high quality experimental studies are needed examining cyclists using standardized methodology and products currently used to alter SPFI function.
  
  
  METHODS
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authors.affiliation: Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, Provo UT, USA.
authors.forename: Sinead
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: FitzGibbon
authors.affiliation: School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: Bill
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Vicenzino
authors.affiliation: School of Health Technology and Management, Stony Brook University, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Sue Ann
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Sisto
keywords: Bicycling injury; orthoses; wedges