22/10/2025
What happens at the GAIT ANALYSIS APPOINTMENT?
✔️FOOT PRESSURE PLATE: as part of the gait analysis we use plantar plate scanners to capture loading patterns through your feet.
✔️GAIT ASSESSMENT: A bluetooth device, connected to the computer, is attached to the clients body as they walk. The movement of the trunk is analysed in each phase of the step and, through advanced algorithms, specific parameters of the analysed test are estimated such as: sidewards imbalance, the movement of the trunk and direction which your body moves, coordination in the trunk, difference between how the upper and lower body moves, gait stability.
✔️STATIC STANCE, JUMPS, HOPS, SQUATS, ANKLE MOVEMENTS: we capsure and provide numerical values for measuring postural sway, reaction times (how fast you respond to visual and audio stimulus), hop, jump and squat techniques… This system enables evaluating the relative contribution made by the various components of the postural system (visual, proprioceptive of different origin, labyrinthine, etc.).
✔️JUMP ANALYSIS: analysing your jump tells us a lot about your lower limb strength. With this system we measure lower limb strength directly, and using appropriate algorithims, accurately and repeatably provide data relating to both eccentric loading phase and to the concentric thrust phase.
✔️MEASURES JOINT FUNCTION AND MUSCLE STRENGTH: the bluetooth device is positioned on various joints of the body before the client is asked to perform specific movements for the system to then capsure, measure and record numerical values of the joint range and muscle strength. So cool!
✔️BIOFEEDBACK; after analysing the gait analysis results, the client can be asked to walk again whilst observing the biofeedback on the TV screen. The clinician will give you instructions instruct you to make small changes to your gait. If the changes are positive then then will be visible by the red, amber, green sys on the TV display
