Collateral temporal kinematic at planter aspect of foot of walking gait of male sportspersons

Over the past few years, there has been an increasing interest in the subject of bio-mechanics, particularly among practitioners and students of physical therapy, Physical education, sports science, bioengineering and several branches of medicine including orthopedics, rheumatology, neurology and rehabilitation. Gait analysis is the systematic study of human walking using the eye and the brain of observers, augmented by instrumentation for measuring body movement, body mechanics and the activity of the muscles. It is often helpful in the medical management of those diseases which affect the locomotor system. Gait analysis helps us to understand Kinematic analysis, temporal analysis, angular kinematic analysis, muscular activity, force analysis, pressure distribution analysis, joint dot analysis etc. There is negligible study on kinematic analysis on Indian sportspersons, hence a research gap was evident and a group of research scholars from Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, (University of Delhi) are motivated to investigate of foot pressure dominance of contralateral aspect considering the morphological and functional asymmetricity of right and left lateral foot of male sportsperson. Ideally it is hypothesized that such findings will generate a new dimension of analogy of gait analysis and thereby their implication in the field of biomechanics and kinesiology. For this purpose twenty seven (48) male sportspersons, who has at least participated at state level competition (age 17 to 25 years) were given a walking gait test to compare between left and right foot pressure distribution. The parameters were measured by using the portable pressure measurement system from Zebris. Inc, Germany(40x30cm), supported with WinFDM-S software, (Germany). Dynamic test for left and right foot was measured in step phases to determine the foot pressure distribution. The selected variables were Left Gait Line Length (LGLL), Right Gait Line Length (RGLL), Left Dynamic Test (LDT) and Right Dynamic Test (RDT).Collected data was computed using SPSS software for Mean, Standard deviation and t-test. The pressure distribution in regard to selected variables was found to be different between right foot and left foot. It was concluded that the male walking gait are different in right foot and left foot.