Table 1.
Vertical force, shoe-floor angle, sliding speed, contact time, and side-slip angle reported by biomechanical studies at HS, SS and PSS. Values are reported as mean ± standard deviations.
| Study | Time points |
Vertical force (%BW) |
Shoe-floor angle (°) |
Sliding speed (m/s) |
Contact time from HS (ms) |
Side-slip angle (+Medial) |
Floor with liquid contaminant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| |||||||
| (Strandberg and Lanshammar, 1981) | HS | NA | 21.3±5.5 | 0.67±0.76 Ʊ | NA | NA | NA-soap |
| SS | 64±16 | 5.5±5.9 | 0.15±0.12Ʊ | 48 ± 21 | NA | ||
| (Cham and Redfern, 2002b) | HS | NA | 16.8±1.5§, 20.5± 0.9* | 1.01±0.20§, 0.62±0.41* | NA | NA | Vinyl with motor oil (10W–40) |
| SS | NA | 1.5±0.6§, 2.2±1.8* | NA | 78.9±9.5§ | NA | ||
| 65.7±3.5* | |||||||
| PSS | NA | NA | 0.31±0.06§, 0.78±0.16* | 121.4±12.4§, 171.4±28.7* | NA | ||
| (Chambers et al., 2002) | HS | NA | 28.2±3.0 | NA | NA | NA | Vinyl with glycerol |
| PSS | NA | NA | 1.79±0.37 | NA | NA | ||
| (McGorry et al., 2010) | HS | NA | 25.3±5.4 | 1.10±0.74 | NA | NA | Delrin dry, Teflon dry, Teflon with aerosol furniture polish |
| (Albert et al., 2017) | SS | NA | 14.7±6.9 | 0.27±0.18 | NA | 66°±54.1 | Vinyl with 90% glycerol-10% water solution |
| PSS | NA | 9.5±7.0 | 1.72±0.71 | NA | 3.2±15.9 | ||
Ʊ
the average sliding speed have been calculated based on the individual results reported from each subject in the study
§
at forward slipping during slip recovery
*
at forward slipping for slip leading to a fall
NA indicates that this variable was not reported for this study