A METHOD FOR TESTING SHOE TORSIONAL AND TOE BREAK FLEXIBILITIES

Many groups have looked at the relationship between shoe structure and lower extremity function (Miller, 2000, Stacoff, 2001, Jarboe and Quesada, 2003). To evaluate this relationship it’s essential to develop a consistent strategy for measuring structural shoe parameters. In the first test, the tendency to rotate about the long axis of the shoe (i.e. torsional flexibility) was measured. In the second test, th