TY  - JOUR
A1  - Khajooei, Mina
A1  - Wochatz, Monique
A1  - Baritello, Omar
A1  - Mayer, Frank
T1  - Effects of shoes on children’s fundamental motor
skills performance
T2  - Footwear science : official journal of the Footwear Biomechanics Group
N2  - Progression or impediment of fundamental motor skills performance (FMSP) in children depends on internal and environmental factors. Shoes as an environmental constraint are believed to affect these movements as children showed to perform qualitatively better with sports shoes than flip-flop sandals. However, locomotor performance assessments based on biomechanical variables are limited. Therefore, the objective of this experiment was to assess the biomechanical effects of wearing shoes while performing fundamental motor skills in children. Barefoot and shod conditions were tested in healthy children between the age of 4 and 7 years. They were asked to perform basic and advanced motor skills including double-leg stance, horizontal jumps, walking as well as counter-movement jumps, single-leg stance and sprinting. Postural control and ground reaction data were measured with two embedded force plates. A 3D motion capture system was used to analyse the spatiotemporal parameters of walking and sprinting. Findings showed that the parameters of single- and double-leg stance, horizontal and counter-movement jump did not differ between barefoot and shod conditions. Most of the spatiotemporal variables including cadence, stride length, stride time, and contact time of walking and sprinting were statistically different between the barefoot and shod conditions. Consequently, tested shoes did not change performance and biomechanics of postural control and jumping tasks; however, the spatiotemporal gait parameters indicate changes in walking and sprinting characteristics with shoes in children.
KW  - Spatiotemporal
KW  - kinetics
KW  - jumping
KW  - stability
KW  - gait
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/57106
SN  - 1942-4280
SN  - 1942-4299
VL  - 12
IS  - 1
SP  - 55
EP  - 62
PB  - Taylor & Francis
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -