Agreement between footswitch and ground reaction force techniques for identifying gait events: inter-session repeatability and the effect of walking speed

Gait Posture. 2007 Jul;26(2):323-6. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2006.09.077. Epub 2006 Oct 31.

Abstract

This study assessed the inter-session repeatability of agreement between foot-ground contact events (foot contact and foot off) identified from ground reaction force and footswitch-based techniques over a range of gait speeds. No inter-session differences in agreement between the ground reaction force and footswitch-based techniques were identified and while agreement between foot-ground contact events defined by the two techniques was found to differ with walking speed, the differences were small (<6 ms or approximately 1% stance duration) and therefore of little practical significance to the majority of gait studies.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Biomechanical Phenomena
  • Gait*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Rehabilitation / instrumentation*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Walking / physiology*