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ArticleJournal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)2024

Habitually wearing high heels may improve user walking economy in any footwear.

Owen N Beck, Jordyn N Schroeder, Gregory S Sawicki

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Article in Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Owen N BeckDepartment of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1802-6036
Jordyn N SchroederGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Gregory S SawickiGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Georgia Institute of Technology · USThe University of Texas at Austin · US

Funding

Dynamic imaging to guide wearable robotic intervention for enhanced mobility in agingR01AG058615 · NIA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI FRANZ, JASON R, SAWICKI, GREGORY STEPHEN · 2018 to 2022
$1.8M
Linking muscle-tendon dynamics and energetics to inform exoskeleton design for improved locomotor economy in aging.F32AG063460 · NIA · GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BECK, OWEN · 2019 to 2021
$151k
HHS | NIH | National Institute on Aging (NIA) F32AG063460HHS | NIH | National Institute on Aging (NIA) R01AG058615NIA NIH HHS F32 AG063460NIA NIH HHS R01 AG058615
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The habitual use of high-heeled footwear may structurally remodel user leg muscle tendons, thereby altering their functional capabilities. High heels set users' ankles in relatively plantarflexed positions, causing calf muscle tendons to operate at relatively short lengths. Habitually operating muscle tendons at relatively short lengths induces structural remodeling that theoretically affects muscle metabolism. Because structural changes occur within the body, the user's locomotor metabolism may change in any footwear condition (e.g., conventional shoes, barefoot). Here, we studied the influence of habitual high-heel use on users' leg muscle-tendon structure and metabolism during walking in flat-soled footwear. We tested eight participants before and after 14 wk of agreeing to wear high heels as their daily shoes. Overall, participants who wore high heels >1,500 steps per day, experienced a 9% decrease in their net metabolic power during walking in flat-soled footwear (d = 1.66,

Indexed as

Achilles TendonHeelBiomechanical PhenomenaHumansLegMuscle, SkeletalShoesWalkingbiomechanicsmetabolicmuscleshoestendon

Identifiers

PMID38299222
PMCPMC11212819
OpenAlexW4391440998

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