WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A health technology startup is commercializing a Purdue University innovation that could improve the ability to predict falls and discover new fall-prevention interventions in ...

Purdue doctoral student Albert Kim, right, wears a smartphone modified so that it can be used to measure a person's walking gait. This is to prevent falls in people with compromised balance, such as ...

Presently, in order to get a detailed analysis of their walking gait, patients have to travel to a clinic where they walk on a pressure-sensitive mat. That could be about to change, though, thanks to ...

We have performed a cross-sectional study of a population that is representative of people in our hospital undergoing knee replacement surgery. We have assessed gait with regards to knee range of ...

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A new device that allows rapid and easy analysis of a patient's gait has been developed by researchers in Oxford. The innovation allows any healthcare clinic to access information previously only ...

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Experts say gait speed, grip strength, balance, and endurance are some of the strongest predictors of long-term independence.

Parkinson’s disease is the fastest-growing neurodegenerative disease, now affecting more than 10 million people worldwide, yet clinicians still face huge challenges in tracking its severity and ...

In this interview, News Medical speaks with Jason Rogers about using CatWalk, RunwayScan, and Ink & Paper for rodent gait analysis and gait measurements. Please could you provide an overview of the ...