The Effects of Minimal Shoes in Older People at Risk of Falls: The Feetback Shoe Study

CompletedOBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment

30

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

November 20, 2019

Primary Completion Date

March 1, 2020

Study Completion Date

March 1, 2020

Conditions
FallsAging
Interventions
OTHER

Minimal shoes

A minimal shoe (Vivobarefoot Ltd., London, UK) will be used.

OTHER

Standardised conventional shoes

The Go Walk 4.0-Pursuit shoe for women (Skechers USA, Inc.) and the Superior 2.0-Jeveno shoe for men (Skechers USA, Inc) will be used.

OTHER

Barefoot

Participants will conduct the assessments barefoot.

OTHER

"Smart shoe insoles"

Arion pressure-measuring insoles (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) will be used in the study.

Trial Locations (1)

L8 0TL

University of Liverpool, Liverpool

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

OTHER_GOV

lead

University of Liverpool

OTHER

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