ArticleScientific reports2026
Effects of midsole support plate material on lower-limb kinetics and muscle activation during basketball-specific movements.
Article in Scientific reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
Abstract
This study investigated whether midsole support plate material alters lower-limb biomechanics during common basketball-specific tasks. Twenty recreational male collegiate basketball players performed countermovement jumps, 45° cutting, and lateral shuffling in a standardized shoe under three conditions: carbon fiber plate, nylon plate, and no plate. Ground reaction forces, lower-limb joint moments (metatarsophalangeal, ankle, and knee), and surface electromyography (sEMG) from key lower-limb muscles were collected and processed using a consistent inverse-dynamics and sEMG processing pipeline. Across tasks, external loading profiles and joint moment magnitudes were broadly comparable between footwear conditions, indicating limited influence of plate material on gross kinetics under the tested movements. Muscle activation outcomes showed only task- and muscle-specific differences, with changes most evident in the quadriceps during cutting, while co-activation ratios at the ankle and knee remained similar across conditions. Overall, modifying midfoot support plate material within a single shoe configuration produced minimal changes in external kinetics and joint moments, with only modest, movement-dependent neuromuscular differences, providing practical guidance for basketball footwear design that targets midfoot support without materially increasing external loads.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.