The effects of prolonged standing in occupational footwear on perceived discomfort, standing balance, and gait biomechanics in young adults
Bibliographic record
Abstract
While occupational footwear (OF) are designed to protect workers from acute injury, it is unclear whether OF affects worker function in otherwise innocuous tasks (i.e., standing and walking). Twenty individuals attended two sessions, wearing athletic footwear (AF) in one and OF in the other. Perceived discomfort, standing balance and gait parameters were measured before and after a 2-h prolonged standing protocol. Compared to AF, foot discomfort was 46 ± 4% greater (p = 0.020) after prolonged standing in OF. Standing balance was also differentially affected between footwear, with medio-lateral sway frequency increasing by 2 ± 3% when wearing OF (p = 0.020) but not in AF. Prolonged standing altered some gait parameters (e.g. increased stance duration, reduced propulsive force, etc.), but all changes were independent of footwear. Therefore, wearing OF is unlikely to cause any substantial changes in standing balance or gait that increases the risk of overuse workplace injury.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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