Our mobility is an important daily requirement so much so that any disruption to it severely
degrades our perceived quality of life. Studies in gait and human movement sciences …

Background Idiopathic toe walking (ITW) is an exclusionary diagnosis given to healthy
children who persist in walking on their toes after they should typically have achieved a heel …

Standard clinical gait analysis protocols usually limit to test self-selected speed gait: this
approach is generally valid and permits time and cost saving. Yet, the literature evidences …

Walking with dropped foot represents a major gait disorder, which is observed in
hemiparetic persons after stroke. This study explores the use of support vector machine …

Background It is generally understood that toe walking involves the absence or limitation of
heel strike in the contact phase of the gait cycle. Toe walking has been identified as a …

Abstract Background Idiopathic Toe Walking (ITW) is present in children older than 3 years
of age still walking on their toes without signs of neurological, orthopaedic or psychiatric …

Methods and Systems for develo** and using evaluative test protocols are described by
way of example embodiments. By protocol, as used herein, generally mean (a) a …

Idiopathic toe walking (ITW), considered abnormal after the age of 3 years, is a common
complaint seen by medical professionals, especially orthopaedic surgeons and …

Background Among neurological pathologies, cerebral palsy and stroke are the main
contributors to walking disorders. Machine learning methods have been proposed in the …

Objectives The purpose of this article is to determine how many of the current peer-reviewed
studies of ankle foot or-thoses (AFOs) on children with cerebral palsy (CP) have included …