Instrumented Gait Analysis
Original Editor - Mariam Hashem
Top Contributors - Mariam Hashem, Jess Bell, Aminat Abolade, Kim Jackson, Tony Lowe and Tarina van der Stockt
Visual Gait Analysis[edit | edit source]
A commonly used method by physiotherapists to investigate gait problems with their patients using a smartphone or any video recording instrument.
Benefits:
- Allows peer-reviewing, showing your colleagues the videos and discussing the presented case
- Reproducible, by taking multiple videos you can track your patient's progression
- Allows observing the gait from multiple angles to detect deviations in multiple plans
Disadvantages:
- Has poor reliability
- It doesn't allow observing high-velocity events, force in moments during walking.
- Subjective, It depends on the observer therefore prone to error
Instrumented Gait Analysis[edit | edit source]
Refers to the collection of quantitative data related to the gait of our patients, such as videography, kinematics, kinetics, oxygen consumption, and electromyography.
Literature suggests that instrumented gait analysis is a valuable tool in clinical practice for the diagnosis, the assessment, and the management of patients affected by conditions altering gait. And in the research field, instrumented gait analysis is often used to evaluate the effectiveness of treatments such as foot orthoses and to explore the consequences of pathologies related to gait, like Rheumatoid Arthritis.
- To apply to clinical practice
- To get familiar with the terminology that is often used in research publications and scientific articles
