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Gait analysis: a step in the right direction
- Source :
- Clinical Rehabilitation. 6:111-116
- Publication Year :
- 1992
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 1992.
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Abstract
- Tri-axial accelerometery has recently been shown to produce reliable gait parameters in normal subjects. This study reports the use of this device in patients with pathological gait. Thirty-three patients with a variety of mobility-limiting disorders were studied. All patients were independently mobile with or without a walking aid. Gait was recorded by attaching the tri-axial accelerometer over the patient's sacrum with the patient walking at their usual pace along a 6m path. Gait speed was measured in all 33 patients and ranged from 0.11 m/s to 0.82m/s. Gait parameters could not be calculated in eight patients. In the remaining 25 patients, gait cycle time, cadence, stride length and mean right and left step times could be calculated. Interobserver variation was 2%. Comparison of right and left step times enabled lateralization of the gait abnormality. This portable technique allows rapid qualitative and quantitative assessment of gait within a normal ward environment.
- Subjects :
- 030222 orthopedics
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Rehabilitation
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
030206 dentistry
Accelerometer
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Gait (human)
Interobserver Variation
Gait analysis
Gait abnormality
medicine
Physical therapy
Quantitative assessment
In patient
medicine.symptom
Cadence
business
human activities
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14770873 and 02692155
- Volume :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Rehabilitation
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ca9d664c9b36f95b99b5db7b73a77fe7