Foot soft tissue properties in health and disease

足部软组织在健康和疾病中的特性

• 批准号: 2309751
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Salford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2309751
• 关键词: Foot; soft; tissue; properties; health

Footcare products affect foot skin properties and alter the interface between footwearand foot skin. This includes but is not limited to:1. Topical applications of emollients, medicaments, plasters/materials at sites of callus/corn and nail tissue. Some of these include components that alter skin properties such as hydration and elasticity.2. Insoles, spanning both comfort and orthotic insole categories, the former using gel based products and the latter largely EVA products.There are potential new areas for development including hosiery, and specific marketsmay present different opportunities that the PhD will impact on during the 4 year studentship.The challenge for Scholl footcare is that products are sometimes developed with minimal insight into the properties of the skin and foot soft tissues that are being affected by their products. These properties may vary by gender and age of the user, location on the foot, physical activity profiles and diseases such as diabetes. Understanding the properties of these tissues is a prerequisite for defining product benefits for consumers, improving the effectiveness of current products and underpinning strategies that lead to innovation. The aim of the PhD is therefore to map the biophysical properties of foot soft tissues relevant to the concepts underpinning a wide range of Scholl footcare products (i.e. help define product concepts), and changes in these properties that might be created due to product use (evaluate product effectiveness).

足部护理产品会影响足部皮肤的特性，改变鞋子和足部皮肤之间的界面。这包括但不限于：1。局部应用润肤剂，药物，膏药/材料在部位的愈伤组织/玉米和指甲组织。其中一些含有改变皮肤特性的成分，如水合作用和弹性。鞋垫，包括舒适和矫形鞋垫类别，前者使用凝胶为基础的产品，后者主要是EVA产品。有潜在的新发展领域，包括袜业，特定的市场可能会提供不同的机会，博士学位将在4年的学习期间产生影响。Scholl足部护理面临的挑战是，产品有时在开发时对受其产品影响的皮肤和足部软组织的特性知之甚少。这些属性可能因用户的性别和年龄、脚上的位置、身体活动概况和糖尿病等疾病而异。了解这些组织的特性是为消费者定义产品利益、提高当前产品有效性和支持导致创新的策略的先决条件。因此，博士学位的目的是绘制足部软组织的生物物理特性，这些特性与支持各种朔尔足部护理产品的概念相关（即帮助定义产品概念），以及由于产品使用可能产生的这些特性的变化（评估产品有效性）。