Plantar pressure analysis of volleyball players based on gait features

Abstract

Due to long-term intense training, volleyball players are more likely to suffer from high pressures in some places of the sole than ordinary people. Sustained exposure to such a high pressure will lead to foot eversion/inversion and different degrees of sports injuries, posing a serious threat to the sports career. Gait features have long been recognized as a major impactor of plantar pressure, but have not been applied to analyze the plantar pressure of volleyball players. To make up for the gap, this paper introduces gait features to the plantar pressure analysis of volleyball players. Professional volleyball players and ordinary people were separately allocated to the test group and the control group, and subjected to contrastive test. The gait features were recorded by a special device. On this basis, the author analyzed the plantar pressure collected in the test, trying to disclose the effects of gait features on plantar pressure and disease of volleyball players. The research results show that: (1) Volleyball players differ greatly from ordinary people in gait features; (2) The uneven distribution of plantar pressure is a major cause of plantar diseases of volleyball players; (3) Changing the gait features helps make the distribution of plantar pressure more uniform, and thus effectively control the risk of plantar diseases. This paper innovatively introduces gait features into the analysis on plantar pressure of volleyball players, and proves that plantar pressure distribution varies with gait features. Of course, gait features are not the only influencing factors of plantar pressure. The future research will explore the other factors that affect the plantar pressure of volleyball players.