Clinical Gait Analysis for Children with Cerebral Palsy

The purpose of this work is to improve clinical diagnosis and treatment of gait abnormalities in children with cerebral palsy. Our lab provides clinical gait analysis as part of routine care for children with cerebral palsy. Clinical gait analysis provides quantitative evaluation of a child’s gait abnormality compared to typically developing children. Gait abnormality indices derived from 3-D motion capture data are used by researchers and clinicians to evaluate the severity of gait abnormalities at baseline and the efficacy of clinical interventions targeting these gait abnormalities. The long-term goal is to learn from these clinical gait data to predict if a clinical intervention will be successful in a particular child, maximizing the benefits and minimizing the costs and discomfort for children with cerebral palsy.

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