A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON FOOT MORPHOLOGY BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT SPORTS

Feet are the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion. This study aimed at comparing and analysis the pressure differences of the foot in two different sports. Ten male (age = 20.71 ± 2.12 years) all India university level players were selected from Weight - Lifting (n = 5) and Judo (n = 5) using purposive sampling. The subjects were asked to stand on BTS P ? Wave modular system (Pressure plate) and the data was recorded for 5 seconds. The results of the study reveal that no statistical differences were found between the two sports suggesting that both the sports have similar type of foot morphological values. In case of comparing the left and right foot, again no significant differences were found concluding that the surface area, force and average pressure in both the feet were found to be similar