The immediate effect of a prototype shoes for restraining body mechanics of knee osteoarthritis

Abstract

Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a painful disease of the knee joint related to ageing and has a high-risk factor in female sex (Felson et al., 1997). Gait with knee OA includes abnormal body mechanics (Mahmoudian et al., 2017) and differs by sex from early knee OA (Nishino et al., 2021). Although walking may be one of effective measures for preventing knee OA because it is associated with the decrease of pain in knee OA (Lo et al., 2022), healthy adults should avoid abnormal body mechanics of knee OA during walking. Thus, we developed a prototype shoes (PTS) for restraining body mechanics of knee OA during walking.