Gait analysis plays an essential role in advancing medical research and improving clinical interventions for conditions affecting mobility and balance. This Collection of articles focuses on ...

“We also hired a physiotherapist and an occupational therapist to come to the house every week to help stabilise her movement and gait. She swims and rides her balance bicycle. Her speech ...

Many modifiable biomechanical risk factors have also been proposed in the literature as interventions via gait retraining. Aim To determine which interventions have successfully modified biomechanical ...

Objective The purpose of this study was to determine whether gait retraining using real-time feedback improves hip mechanics and reduces pain in subjects with PFPS. Methods Ten runners with PFPS ...

Autistic children and some adults may develop a unique gait pattern, which can be identified by: a reduced stride length an increased walking cadence or a bouncy pace an increased variation in ...

This content was created by our physicians and experts. By Paulo RP Selber, MD, FSBOT, FRACS; Jennifer Jezequel PT, DPT, PCS Gait analysis is one of the many specialized tools available to help ...

As we age, gradual changes in our bodies and health can alter how we walk, often without us realising. But the way we walk, known as our gait pattern, matters more than we might think. Poor gait doesn ...

Methods: Fourteen patients with MS and the same number of matched control subjects performed four 10 m gait trials at their preferred walking speed at 10 00 am and then again at 3 00 pm on the same ...

The HSS Running Mechanics Analysis is a biomechanical assessment that aims to identify factors leading to performance deficits and injury risk in runners or triathletes of any age or skill level. This ...

Introduction: Gait impairments are one of the earliest signs reported by patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and cause an increased number of falls and decreased quality of life among these ...

Many studies about gait initiation call APAs those activities that precede the heel-off of the leading foot, thus taking heel-off as the onset of voluntary movement. In particular, leg muscles drive ...