Changes in lower limb muscle synchronisation during walking on high-heeled shoes

Manisha Pratihast; Ahmed Al-Ani; Rifai Chai; Steven Su; Ganesh Naik

Changes in lower limb muscle synchronisation during walking on high-heeled shoes

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Author(s): Manisha Pratihast¹ ; Ahmed Al-Ani¹ ; Rifai Chai² ; Steven Su¹ ; Ganesh Naik³
- Affiliations: 1: Centre for Health Technologies, Faculty of Engineering & IT , University of Technology Sydney , 15, Broadway Ultimo Sydney, New South Wales 2007 , Australia ;
  2: Department of Telecommunications, Electrical, Robotics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology , Swinburne University of Technology , PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Vic 3122 , Australia ;
  3: Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience Research Group, MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University , Kings Wood, 2747, New South Wales 2007 , Australia
Source: Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2018, p. 236 – 238
DOI: 10.1049/htl.2018.5032 , Online ISSN 2053-3713

This is an open access article published by the IET under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

Received 21/10/2017, Accepted 31/08/2018, Revised 27/05/2018, Published 14/11/2018

The goal of this research was to investigate the effect of wearing high-heeled shoes (HHS) on lower limb muscle synchronisation during walking, using beta band (15–30 Hz) coherence analysis. Fifteen females with no previous neuromuscular disorders volunteered in this study. Surface electromyography in frequency domain was studied from rectus femoris (RF), vastus lateralis (VL), vastus medialis (VM) and semitendinosus (ST) muscles during walking by subjects wearing HHS of three different heel heights (low – 4 cm, medium – 6 cm and high – 10 cm). Average coherence values were calculated for RF-VL, RF-VM and RF-ST muscles in beta band to analyse muscle pair synchronisation. In this study, significant increase in beta band coherence was found in all three muscle pairs during walking on HHS of different heel heights (p<0.05). Increased beta band coherence obtained from this study suggested that walking on HHS demands higher muscle pair synchronisation, to maintain stability around the knee joint.

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