Rotational abnormalities are a common problem in many neuromuscular disorders, such as cerebral palsy and myelomeningocele. Torsional bony deformities, identified during the clinical examination, may ...

There can be significant differences in kinematics (joint angles) and temporal-spatial gait parameters, such as walking speed, step length, depending on age and sex. Many studies on gait analysis have ...

Gait analysis systems measure certain metrics to give their results. These results then drive clinical treatment for gait correction. However, detailed gait analysis requires expensive equipment, and ...

Abnormalities in gait, an individual’s pattern of walking, can result in pain and motion reduction and are associated with a range of conditions, including neurological and degenerative disease and ...

Falling is one of the biggest risks older adults face. As you age, your body doesn’t move the way it used to. You might lose strength, your vision may fade, and your balance becomes harder to maintain ...

The way you walk, something you likely perform automatically thousands of times daily, contains a wealth of information about your overall health. Gait analysis, once primarily the domain of elite ...

Gait analysis is often used in sports medicine, as seen in this picture. Credit: Daniel Karmann/picture alliance via Getty Images Over the weekend, the conservative media outlet The Blaze and ...

Most runners know a gait analysis only as something done when a shoe store associate crouches down to the floor to watch them run back and forth in their socks with pant legs hiked up to mid-calves.

Running is one of the most accessible forms of aerobic exercise and offers many health benefits. It can improve your cardiovascular function, bone health, and your muscular strength/endurance. It can ...

The body's response to the valgus thrust at the knee is a net knee adductor moment (Figure 13). Joint kinetic data, specifically the net knee coronal plane moment in stance, would substantiate the ...