A study on the foot pressure characteristics of athletes in different sports

This study takes 64 students from the Athletics Department, National Taiwan College of Physical Education as subjects, whose specialties include fencing, badminton, weight-lifting, hockey and tae-kwon-do. In the study, gaits of different subjects are measured at the rhythm of 112 steps per minute. The results found that different sports events reached significant levels in start time, contact time, contact percentage, maximum pressure, impulse, contact area and peak. Gaits in different sports show conspicuous differences; most noticeably different from other sports in impulse, contact time is weight-lifting, which also has the highest value in mean. Fencing shows significant differences in peak, impulse, and maximum pressure. Compared with tae-kwon-do and weight-lifting, start time of racket-holding events, such as badminton, fencing, and hockey lags behind. Compared with badminton, fencing and hockey, contact time of whole-body-load events, such as tae-kwon-do and weight-lifting is longer. Although the contact area did not show significant difference, the study suggests the gait patterns in different sports, the relationship between gaits and foot stress in training or games be understood, and the relationship between gaits and sport injury in different sports be further analyzed.