Equinus gait, defined as walking on one forefoot or both forefeet, has long been considered an undesirable characteristic in patients with a variety of neuromuscular disorders. In the equinus gait, the heel contact pattern is changed according to the severity, because an excessive ankle plantar flexion instigates rearfoot lifting in patients. However, no biomechanical severity index exists to e...

The purpose was to develop an index of walking performance and to examine gait pattern classifications of children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD). The San Diego database (Sutherland, Olshen, Biden, & Wyatt, 1988) provided data for our calculation of the index and for determining that the index was able to differentiate between gait variables of older (ages 3 to 7) and younger (a...

Background: During locomotion, a gait is pattern of limb movement. The numerous ways in which human can move, either naturally or as result specific training, are referred to gaits. A person's their walking pattern. Walking requires muscle coordination and balance push the body forward rhythm known stride. An irregular could be caused by number factors.Degenerative disease (such arthritis), str...

A novel approach to gait pattern classification is presented. Based on data collected from patients at an rehabilitation centre we achieve a clustering according to various gait malfunctions by using self-organizing maps. The major benefit of such an approach is that the learning process ends up with a classification of gait malfunctions without the need of the tremendous effort to define a bio...

We describe a new method for automatic gait recognition based on analysing the symmetry of human motion using the Generalised Symmetry Operator. This approach is reinforced by the psychologists view that gait is a symmetrical pattern of motion and results show that gait can indeed be recognised by symmetry analysis. 2003 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.