Correlation of foot pain with characteristics of footwear, BMI and quality of life in female physiotherapy students of Parul University -A correlational study

Foot pain is a common disorder which is faced by most of the population which can cause destructive effect to the foot function and health. Foot pain is caused by many pathological as well as idiopathic factors including BMI and Type of Footwear.

The most common factor for heel pain in them is footwear and overweight. There is less study done on the correlation of foot pain with footwear and BMI in female physiotherapy students. So, the purpose of this study is to describe the effect of footwear and BMI on plantar heel pain in female physiotherapy students and its impact on quality of lifestyle.

The study consists of 42 subjects between 18 to 25 years randomly selected as per the inclusion criteria. The subjects were explained in brief about the study and they were given the FHSQ questionnaire for collecting the data. Their foot length and width, height and weight were measured and were correlated with foot pain for completing the study.

The study showed that, there is significant effect of foot pain on foot function and foot health with significance values 0.000 and 0.002 respectively. But the correlation of foot pain with BMI and kind of Footwear was not much significant with significance value of 0.381and 0.173 respectively.

The study concluded that BMI and Footwear are not major factors causing foot pain in the subjects. But subjects with foot pain have detrimental effect on foot function and foot health and so their quality of life is also affected.