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Foot callus thickness does not trade off protection for tactile sensitivity during walking.
Article in Nature, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.
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34 citing papers in PubMed.
- Running barefoot leads to lower running stability compared to shod running - results from a randomized controlled study.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- Heel-strike mechanics reveal evolutionary trade-offs in hominin bipedalism.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Measuring In-Shoe Plantar Strain Outcomes in the Presence of Callus: A Preliminary Study Using the STAMPS3D Measurement System.Journal of foot and ankle research · 2026Article
- Footwear Choice and Locomotor Health Throughout the Life Course: A Critical Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Skin adaptation in lower limb amputees assessed through Raman spectroscopy and mechanical characterization.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Effects of shoe heel height on ankle dynamics in running.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Effects of Biomimetic Shoes on Healthy Young Children's Gait.Revista brasileira de ortopedia · 2024Article
- The effects of the use of customized silicone digital orthoses on pre-ulcerative lesions and plantar pressure during walking in people with diabetic neuropathy: A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2024Article
- Reliability and Validity of Shore Hardness in Plantar Soft Tissue Biomechanics.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Predicting the diabetic foot in the population of type 2 diabetes mellitus from tongue images and clinical information using multi-modal deep learning.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Does Impaired Plantar Cutaneous Vibration Perception Contribute to Axial Motor Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease? Effects of Medication and Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Morphological and evolutionary insights into the keystone element of the human foot's medial longitudinal arch.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Potential predictive effect of mechanical properties of the plantar skin and superficial soft tissue, and vibration perception on plantar loading during gait in individuals with diabetes.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023Article
- Effect of Footwear Type on Biomechanical Risk Factors for Knee Osteoarthritis.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2023Article
- Assessing reliability and validity of different stiffness measurement tools on a multi-layered phantom tissue model.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- The case for considering volar skin in a "separate status" for wound healing.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Review
- Barefoot Running on Grass as a Potential Treatment for Plantar Fasciitis: A Prospective Case Series.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Does plantar skin abrasion affect cutaneous mechanosensation?Physiological reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Until relatively recently, humans, similar to other animals, were habitually barefoot. Therefore, the soles of our feet were the only direct contact between the body and the ground when walking. There is indirect evidence that footwear such as sandals and moccasins were first invented within the past 40 thousand years
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