This article is part of the supplement: 1st Congress of the International Foot & Ankle Biomechanics (i-FAB) community .

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The role of shear stress in the aetiology of diabetic neuropathic foot ulcers

C Giacomozzi¹ , Z Sawacha², L Uccioli³, E D'Ambrogi³, A Avogaro⁴ and C Cobelli²

¹  Dept of Technology and Health, Italian National Institute of Health (ISS), Rome, Italy

²  Dept of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

³  Dept of Internal Medicine, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

⁴  Department of Clinical Medicine and Metabolic Disease, University Polyclinic, Padova, Italy

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from 1st Congress of the International Foot & Ankle Biomechanics (i-FAB) community
Bologna, Italy. 4–6 September 2008

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 2008, 1(Suppl 1):O3doi:10.1186/1757-1146-1-S1-O3

Published:	26 September 2008

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

Several biomechanical studies have been conducted in the last decade to investigate the aetiology of plantar ulcers in presence of Diabetes (D) and Peripheral Neuropathy (PN) [1]. Great renewed interest has been lately showed towards shear stresses during gait [2,3]. In this case, the major difficulty lays in technology, since it is still hard to obtain reliable and meaningful measurements by using the available measurement systems. The authors' validated methodology [4] is here re-proposed, and the results of its further applications to the analysis of PN shear stress are here briefly reported.