“Perfil morfológico del arco plantar en deportistas que practican la disciplina de atletismo en las ramas fondistas y salto largo de la federación deportiva de Napo.”

Abstract

The most distal extremity of the lower limb is the foot, it is a structure with a design that helps us support body weight, give us stability and helps us perform walking, running and jumping activities. In this research the objective was to identify the morphological profile of the plantar arch in athletes who practice the discipline of athletics in the branches: fondistas and long jump of the Sports Federation of Napo. In which a datasheet was used focused mainly on obtaining the general data of each of the participants being necessary data for the study. As well as obtaining the plantar footprint by planting both feet and then proceed to obtain results by the Hernández Corvo method, digitized in the Kinovea software.

It is an investigation of non-experimental type of correlation. After the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 36 athletes were obtained in an average age of 9 to 23 years of age eligible for the study. The statistical analysis of the study was performed using the SPSS version 22 program for the variables of the type of foot morphology has every athlete in their respective sport branch.

It was analyzed and determined that the type of plantar footprint that predominates in the sportsmen of both long jump and fondistas is the foot cavo and normal-cavo. Through the correlation performed with the Pearson test between long jump and plantar footprint type it was observed that there is a significant correlation of -0.01 standing right cavus, while in the background discipline tube a correlation of -0.05 standing right.