Gait analysis can be part of your functional assessment. You will most likely choose to do a gait analysis when walking was one of your patient’s specific complaints.
It can be helpful to record your patient while on the treadmill to be able to play the video in slow motion for analysis.
Step: Starts with the contact of one foot and ends with the initial contact of the other foot
Stride: Starts with the contact of one foot and ends with the initial contact of the same foot (so 2 steps = 1 stride)
The stance phase account for 60% of the full gait cycle, while the swing phase makes up the other 40% the gait cycle.
| Study | Reliability | Sn | Sp | LR+ | LR- |
| Brunnekreef et al. (2005) | ICC inter: 0.4 – 0.54 ICC intra: 0.57 -0.74 |
NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Comment: Reliability of gait analysis with a structured gait analysis form improved with level of experience and expertise | |||||
Download: Nijmegen Gait Analysis form
