Becker Stephan, Maurer Lukas, Dindorf Carlo, Dully Jonas, Fröhlich Michael, Ludwig Oliver
Department of Sports Science, RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil. 2025 Jul 8;17(1):185. doi: 10.1186/s13102-025-01242-y.
Preventive team testing showed an above-average number of pes cavus among soccer players. This raised the question of whether wearing relatively small soccer shoes - as it is often the case for soccer players - shoes might be responsible and cause a kind of foot compression and a muscular-induced pes cavus.
This cross-sectional study included 198 male youth and adult soccer players (age: 18.6±5.8 years, height: 176.3±14.8 cm, body mass: 69.9±11.5 kg). The delta between shoe and foot length was compared with arch index (AI) and normalised truncated navicular height (NTNH) and especially for those whose shoes were too small.
The data confirms that among soccer players, 34% had a pes cavus, only 15% were free of pes planus or pes cavus and 27% wore shoes that were too small. Contrary to the authors hypothesis, the NTNH revealed a general relationship with the delta between foot length and shoe length. Players with shoes that were too small had a significantly higher arch (AI = 0.24) than players with adequate shoe size (AI = 0.25), but on average, the arch was still in the range of a normal foot. No correlation was found between the magnitude of the delta and the AI value for the subgroup of players whose shoes that were too small.
The data confirm the increased prevalence of pes cavus among soccer players, but could not confirm the authors' hypothesis that this may be caused by wearing shoes that are too small.
预防性团队测试显示，足球运动员中高弓足的数量高于平均水平。这就引发了一个问题，即足球运动员经常穿相对较小的足球鞋，这是否可能导致一种足部挤压，并引发肌肉性高弓足。
这项横断面研究纳入了198名男性青少年和成年足球运动员（年龄：18.6±5.8岁，身高：176.3±14.8厘米，体重：69.9±11.5千克）。将鞋长与足长的差值与足弓指数（AI）和标准化舟骨截断高度（NTNH）进行比较，特别是对于那些穿太小鞋子的人。
数据证实，在足球运动员中，34%患有高弓足，只有15%没有扁平足或高弓足，27%穿的鞋子太小。与作者的假设相反，NTNH显示出与足长和鞋长差值之间的一般关系。鞋子太小的球员的足弓（AI = 0.24）明显高于鞋码合适的球员（AI = 0.25），但平均而言，足弓仍在正常足部范围内。对于鞋子太小的球员亚组，未发现差值大小与AI值之间存在相关性。
数据证实了足球运动员中高弓足患病率增加，但未能证实作者关于这可能是由穿太小的鞋子引起的假设。
