Gait Analysis Resources

Deborah Vickers

Description

Title:

Gait Analysis Resources

Creator:

Deborah Vickers

Date:

7/21/2008

Text:

Greetings from Australia,

 

I am interested to know what Gait Analysis resources Orthotists and
Prosthetists have available to them for their clinical practice.

 

Do you have access to any or all of these?

Which ones do you use for every patient appointment, for more difficult
patient fittings, and for extreme cases of an unsolved problem?

If finances were of no object which of these resources would you find
helpful in your service provision for every patient, for more difficult
patient fittings, and for extremely difficult problems?

 

a. Observational real-time gait analysis

b. Observational video gait analysis

c. Temporospatial measures (including GaitRite etc)

d. Pressure measurement systems

e. Video Vector systems

f. 3 dimensional kinematics (Vicon or similar)

g. 3 dimensional kinetics (Vicon or similar, with force plates)

 

I guess my question is, Can every O&P prescription be achieved with only
Observational real time gait analysis? Which patients need more in depth
assessment or measurement, and what measures or information are useful
to the Orthotist/Prosthetist?

 

Appreciate your feedback,

 

Deborah

 

Mrs Deborah Vickers
MBiomedE, BE
Biomechanics Laboratory Manager

Biomechanics and Gait Laboratory
School of Risk and Safety Sciences

K15 - Old Main Building
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052
NSW Australia

ph:(02) 9385 5414
fax: (02) 9385 6190
email: <Email Address Redacted>
web: <URL Redacted>

CRICOS Provider: 00098G

 


                          

Citation

Deborah Vickers, “Gait Analysis Resources,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 7, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/229577.