Electronic Walkway

[Kei Masani]

Dear all,

Our lab is looking for an electronic walkway by which we can measure gait parameters such as stride length etc. I found that GaitRite is most popular, and Tekscan has a system but relatively smaller than GaitRite. Does anyone know of any other products competitive to these? Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Kei

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Kei MASANI, Ph.D.
Scientist
Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory
Lyndhurst Centre, Toronto Rehab
520 Sutherland Drive, Toronto, Ontario
M4G 3V9, Canada
Phone: +1-416-597-3422 ext 6098
Fax: +1-416-425-9923
E-mail: k.masani@utoronto.ca
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[James Furmato]

Re: Electronic Walkway

Hi Kei,

We use the GaitMat system made by E.Q., Inc., Chalfont, Pennsylvania, USA. We have four sections to get about 3 meters of temporal and spatial gait parameters including stride length, step length, breakdown of the gait cycle and average forward velocity. Another lab I know of uses 8 sections.

Jim Furmato
Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine
Gait Study Center
Philadelphia, PA

[Kei Masani]

Re: Electronic Walkway

Thanks to all for your helpful responses to my post on the above subject
I have listed up the suggested devices as follows.

< Electronic Walkway >
GaitRite, CIR Systems, Inc.

http://www.gaitrite.com/

P-Walk, BTS Biomedical
ttp://www.btsbioengineering.com/BTSBiomedical/neurology/page152/BTS_P-WALK.html

GaitMat, E.Q., Inc

http://www.gaitmat.com/

< Inertial Sensor for Gait Report >
Mobility Lab, APDM, Inc.

http://apdm.com/products/software/mobilitylab/

< Motion Capture with Automatic Gait Report >
KineView, KINE

http://www.randburg.com/is/kine/

Thanks again,

Kei