Week 2 - Clinical Application of Linear Movement Analysis

What data is collected during clinical gait anaylsis?

• video

• foot pressure

• 3D kinematics and kinetics

• muscle activity

• oxygen consumption

• ROM, flexibility and stiffness

• muscle strength

• muscle tone/motor control

• motor coordination, balance

Observational gait analysis

• balance

• walking speed

• arm swing

• shuffling gait

• ataxic gait

• hemiplegia

• foot drop

• trendelenberg gait

• spastic paraplegia

• waddling gait

When to take gait analysis?

• baseline

• pre-op

• post-op

• at regular time intervals

Why clinical gait anaylsis?

• diagnosis

• plan treatment

• assess treatment

• assess functional limitations

why instrumented gait analysis?

• identify functional limitations and causative impairments

• plan individualized treatment

  • specific strengthening or stretching exercises

  • EMG biofeedback

  • functional e-stim

  • bracing

  • orthotics or assistive devices

  • nerve or intramuscular neurolytic block

  • surgery

• track changes

• understand effects of treatment

• prediction of treatment effects

observational analysis of static standing posture (whole body)

• sagittal plane and frontal plane

• symmetry

• effect of force relative to joint axis

static analysis of single segment (foot)

free body diagram