Professor Richard Baker, PhD, CEng, CSci, is Professor of Clinical Gait analysis, University of Salford. Richard has spent nearly twenty years delivering or managing clinical gait analysis services. For nine years he was Manager of the Hugh Williamson Gait Analysis Service at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. During this time he served as Founder Director of the NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Gait Analysis. He is the first Professor of Clinical Gait Analysis anywhere in the world and is currently developing a Joint European Masters Degree programme in clinical movement analysis with colleagues in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

Terminology

1. Introduction

2. Basic Measurements

3. The conventional gait model

4. Alternatives to the conventional gait model

5. Advanced processing techniques

6. Electromyography

7. Clinical video

8. Physical examination

9. General measures of walking quality

10. Relationships between different data types

11. Quality assurance

12. Interpretation and reporting

13. Accuracy and reliability

14. How to set up a gait analysis service

15. How to set up and maintain a gait analysis laboratory

Appendix 1: Limitations of the conventional subdivision of the gait cycle

Appendix 2: Other measures of repeatability

Index