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Leeds Podiatry Clinic continues to offer one of the most advanced independent gait assessment in the North of England. This enables us to provide you with advice on future treatment programmes, or report on the success of previous interventions, such as your rehabilitation programmes. Where necessary and appropriate we will prescribe foot orthoses supported by the data gathered, the clinical assessment and injury history.

Gaitrite is our front line state of the art, kinematic/kinetic data gathering equipment. Gaitrite has been used extensively in research and Leeds Podiatry Clinic’s system consists of a 14-foot pressure mat integrated to a slow motion video camera. Unlike a single step plate there is no targeting which severely affects validity of data collected by single pressure plates. Gaitrite provides critical data such as stride length, base of support and angle of gait, which is critical data just not available through inferior single Pressure Plates systems like RS Scan, Footscan, or Gaitscan. We use Gaitrite data to assess patients barefoot to see if they have any underlying gait abnormality or asymmetry. We can also use Gaitrite to assess if intervention has changed gait parameters.

Barefoot data and external data from the shoe is useful but sometimes it necessary to establish what motion is going on inside shoes or on the foot orthoses interface. For this we have the Fscan mobile, by far the best clinical in-shoe gait analysis system available. Because it is placed inside the shoe there are no targeting issues, and a record of multiple steps are taken to produce an average. It can also be used running. To improve our validity we have standard clinic shoe used for all tests. The Fscan Mobile produces detailed force/time curves, highly specific pressure mapping as well as displacement symmetry of centre of mass in gait.




	GAIT ANALYSIS IN LEEDS / LOWER LIMB BIOMECHANICS Leeds Podiatry Clinic continues to offer one of the most advanced independent gait assessment in the North of England. This enables us to provide you with advice on future treatment programmes, or report on the success of previous interventions, such as your rehabilitation programmes. Where necessary and appropriate we will prescribe foot orthoses supported by the data gathered, the clinical assessment and injury history. Gaitrite Gaitrite is our front line state of the art, kinematic/kinetic data gathering equipment. Gaitrite has been used extensively in research and Leeds Podiatry Clinic’s system consists of a 14-foot pressure mat integrated to a slow motion video camera. Unlike a single step plate there is no targeting which severely affects validity of data collected by single pressure plates. Gaitrite provides critical data such as stride length, base of support and angle of gait, which is critical data just not available through inferior single Pressure Plates systems like RS Scan, Footscan, or Gaitscan. We use Gaitrite data to assess patients barefoot to see if they have any underlying gait abnormality or asymmetry. We can also use Gaitrite to assess if intervention has changed gait parameters. F-Scan Mobile Barefoot data and external data from the shoe is useful but sometimes it necessary to establish what motion is going on inside shoes or on the foot orthoses interface. For this we have the Fscan mobile, by far the best clinical in-shoe gait analysis system available. Because it is placed inside the shoe there are no targeting issues, and a record of multiple steps are taken to produce an average. It can also be used running. To improve our validity we have standard clinic shoe used for all tests. The Fscan Mobile produces detailed force/time curves, highly specific pressure mapping as well as displacement symmetry of centre of mass in gait. USE OF GAIT DATA The data collected from our gait technology is utilised to understand the pathology. It is not used to give a diagnosis, but can be used to support one. Equally the data can be used to help create a prescription for foot orthoses, but is not used to generate an insole. The data gathered from gait analysis will not tell you that certain muscles are weak, or how much a pelvis is rotated or how large a limb length difference is. There are many factors to consider in a treatment plan and gait analysis can be an important part, but should never be used as the method of insole generation alone. DO NOT USE PRACTITIONERS WHO CLAIM THERE ORTHOSES ARE CUSTOM MADE FROM PRESSURE DATA ALONE.