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Pedobarography and the centre of pressure (COP) progression is useful to
understand foot function. Pedobarography is often unavailable in gait
laboratories or completed asynchronously to kinematic and kinetic data
collection. This paper presents a model that allows calculation of COP
progression synchronously using force plate data. The model is an adjunct to
Plug-In-Gait and was applied to 49 typically developing children to create
reference COP data. COP progressions were noted to spend 8% of stance behind the
ankle joint centre, traverse lateral of the longitudinal axis of the foot through
the midfoot for 76% of stance and finishing past the second metatarsal head on
the medial side for 16% of stance. It is hoped the model will bridge the
information gap for gait laboratories lacking pedobarography during foot
assessments and will open up the possibility of retrospective research into COP
progression based indices on kinematic data.
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