OBSERVATIONAL STUDY ON FOOT PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION IN YOUNG AND ADULTS

In the recent years, the plantar pressure has widely been accepted as a vital biomechanical parameter to evaluate human biomechanics.. The present study endeavours to find the effect of age in foot pressure distribution and its influence over medial, lateral, anterior and posterior mask of foot pressure distribution. It is an observational and comparative study on foot pressure distribution in young (25-35 years) and adults (40-60 years). Materials such as anthropometric rod, weighing machine and Podia Scan including Harrison mats have been used for the purpose of this study. Both an inter group and intra group comparison has been made. The mean and SD values of medial & lateral masks in the case of young subjects were 16.98±2.80 & 16.13±2.77, while these were 13.72±1.59 & 19.38±1.58 in old subjects indicating the lateralisation of weight bearing in adults. Nevertheless, the difference in plantar pressure distribution was not statistically significant when anterior mask (t=1.819, p