Measuring Walking

Professor Richard Baker, PhD, CEng, CSci, is Professor of Clinical Gait analysis, University of Salford.  Richard has spent nearly twenty years delivering or managing clinical gait analysis services. For nine years he was Manager of the Hugh Williamson Gait Analysis Service at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. During this time he served as Founder Director of the NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Gait Analysis. He is the first Professor of Clinical Gait Analysis anywhere in the world and is currently developing a Joint European Masters Degree programme in clinical movement analysis with colleagues in Belgium and the Netherlands.

• About the Author AcknowledgementsForewordPrefaceTerminology1. Introduction2. Basic Measurements3. The conventional gait model4. Alternatives to the conventional gait model5. Advanced processing techniques6. Electromyography7. Clinical video8. Physical examination9. General measures of walking quality10. Relationships between different data types11. Quality assurance12. Interpretation and reporting13. Accuracy and reliability14. How to set up a gait analysis service15. How to set up and maintain a gait analysis laboratoryAppendix 1: Limitations of the conventional subdivision of the gait cycleAppendix 2: Other measures of repeatabilityIndex