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Coloured Signal Coding in Computerized Human Gait Analysis

Contemporary computers are used in clinical gait analysis. The measured data on locations of certain points on the subject's body during gait, as well as the data on ground reaction force are combined - assuming a body model of a rigid segment type - via inverse dynamic approach, so that, as the output data, sets of kinematic and kinetic curves are yielded that describe the amount of rotation of individual body segments as well as net forces and moments appearing in virtual joint centers during gait. Interpretation of these results is a problem in clinical application since it is time consuming and arduous. The coloured coding of the output curves proposed by Manal and Stanhope is applied in this paper to indicate to the clinician the direction and the degree of deviation from the norm of particular regions in the measurement curves, and of curves as a whole.

Coloured Signal Coding; Gait Analysis

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