Traditional Gait Analysis

The value of sophisticated, video-based gait analysis is well established.

However, the cost of establishing a gait clinic is very high (often more than $250,000). These systems also require highly trained and dedicated personel. As a result, the routine use of gait analysis in clinical practice has been very limited.

In addition, though in-patient gait labs offer highly sophisticated motion analysis, the lab environment does not mirror the patients actual living conditions or motion requirements. That is, labs analyze a very limited number of steps on level ground.

It can also be difficult to determine the relationship between video kinematic data and the level of a patients disability in everyday living.

A New Approach to Gait Analysis

The need and potential clinical value of an inexpensive, easy to use gait anaylsis system has been repeatedly cited in the medical literature (and by several participants in a recent NIH-sponosored conference). In particular, a variety of researchers have described the value of an ambulatory system that could acquire data from either, defined protocols or actual living conditions and provide automatic quantitative data analysis.

Beyond Gait Impairment, to Functional Living Impairment

The IDEEA LifeGait System is the worlds' first commercially available gait analysis instrument which meets, and in many respects, exceeds, all of these suggested capabilities.