GAITRite® system

Keywords— Cat, pressure walkway, gait analysis, GAITRite system, ratio fore/hind. 

Keywords— Pressure walkway, gait anafysis, healthy dog, GAITRite system, ratio. 

Recently, a human gait analysis tools have introduced GAITRite system, a pressure mat, which measure spatio-temporal parameter, peak vertical pressure and velocity of walk. Combined with specialized qnadraped-adapted software, this system can calculate these parameters for each limb at the same time and in the same conditions at one walk. 

Studies recently assessed the concurrent validity of the GAITRite system in humans with video-based analysis system [9] paper-and-pencil and video-based methods [10] a footswitch system [1 Ij a three-dimensional motion analysis system Vicon-512 [12] and stopwatch-footfall count method [14], all of these reports demonstrated that the results of validity and reliability of this system for gait analysis were excellent. The same procedures had been done in dogs [20]. 

The GAITRite system was proved to provide useful data spatio-temporal parameters, maximal pressure and number of activated sensors of the dog at walk and allowed quick analysis. 

McDonough AL, Batavia M, Chen FC et al. (2001) The validity and reliability of the GAITRite system s measurements a preliminary evaluation. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 82 419-425. 

Bilney B, Morris M, Webster K (2003) Concurrent validity of the GAITRite walkway system for quantification of the spatial and temporal parameter of gait. Gait Poster 17 68-74. 

Webster KE, Wittwer JE, Feller JA (2004) Validity of the GAITRite walkway system for the measurement of averaged and individual step parameters of gait. Gait posture 22 317-321. 

Youdas JW, Hollman JH, Aabers MJ et al. (2006) Agreement between the GAITRite walkway system and a stopwatch-footfall count method for measurement of temporal and spatial gait parameters. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 87 1648-1652. 

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