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To overcome such limitations, a smart sock that is equipped with stretch sensors is being developed to record movement data outside of the laboratory. For the smart sock stretch sensors to provide valuable feedback, the sensors should have durability of both materials and signal. To test the durability of the stretch sensors, the sensors were exposed to high-cycle fatigue testing with simultaneous capture of the capacitance. Following randomization, either the fatigued sensor or an unfatigued sensor was placed in the plantarflexion position on the smart sock, and participants were asked to complete the following static movements: dorsiflexion, inversion, eversion, and plantarflexion. Participants were then asked to complete gait trials. The sensor was then exchanged for either an unfatigued or fatigued plantarflexion sensor, depending upon which sensor the trials began with, and each trial was repeated by the participant using the opposite sensor. Results of the tests show that for both the static and dynamic movements, the capacitive output of the fatigued sensor was consistently higher than that of the unfatigued sensor suggesting that an upwards drift of the capacitance was occurring in the fatigued sensors. 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