Our Portable 3D Gait Analysis System is a revolutionary medical-level device. It's a new - type rapid gait assessment system that uses imperceptible micro - posture sensing technology.
With this system, you can start a gait test in just 1 - 2 minutes by simply walking with the sensing insoles in your shoes. It has a vast gait database covering different age groups, which provides normal reference values and can automatically generate report conclusions without any manual operation. This system is not only easy to use but also breaks the venue restrictions. You can conduct tests anywhere, whether it's at home, in an outpatient clinic, or even during a rehabilitation training session.
The Portable 3D Gait Analysis System has a wide range of applications across multiple fields:
1.Medical Rehabilitation: It plays a crucial role in stroke rehabilitation assessment, where it quantifies circumduction gait severity through swing width analysis. For Parkinson's patients, it evaluates their gait progress by monitoring cadence, step length, and turning angle. In the rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy, the loading angle helps assess the rehabilitation status and improvement of equinus gait.
2.Disease Screening: It is useful for early screening of Alzheimer's disease. By accurately measuring the walking speed and gait variability under single - task and dual - task paradigms, potential cases can be identified at an early stage. Additionally, in elderly fall risk screening, analyzing the foot clearance mechanism and toe movement trajectory can determine the risk of tripping.
3.Sports and Fitness: In the sports field, it can be used for training injury risk warning. Excessive pronation detected by the system alerts users to potential lower - limb sports injuries. Coaches and athletes can also utilize it to optimize running postures, enhance training efficiency, and prevent injuries.
4.Orthopedics and Podiatry: For orthopedic postoperative evaluation, it clearly shows the weight - bearing time on the affected side. In biomechanical analysis of lower limbs in knee arthritis, the system intuitively displays the plantar force distribution. It also guides the design of biomechanical orthotic insoles, which adjust lower limb alignment and improve gait.
Our Portable Gait Analysis System features a detachable design, separating the sensors from the testing insoles. One pair of sensors can be paired with reusable testing insoles in various sizes, making it easy to test patients of all ages. It's different from the thin - film insole for plantar pressure measurement, which needs to be cut according to the tester's foot size every time. It's also different from the smart - shoe solution with built - in sensors, where you'd have to buy many pairs of shoes in different sizes. Our solution is both simple and cost - effective.
Moreover, our sensors can not only be placed in the grooves of the testing insoles for gait testing, but also be fixed to the legs and torso with our special straps for gait training and balance training.
What's more important is that our design truly enables medical - grade clinical application. Why do I say that? In fact, our R & D team tried many solutions ten years ago, like using thin - film insoles to measure plantar pressure, placing posture sensors inside shoes, or attaching them to the shoe surface or heel cup. We also conducted data comparisons, clinical trials, and market validations. It turns out that our current solution is the best in terms of data collection volume, data repeatability and consistency. It's also the easiest to operate and is most popular among therapists and patients.
The gait measurement method using thin - film insole for plantar pressure can measure the static and dynamic pressure of the sole, but it can't obtain 3D data. You can't know the angles in different gait cycles and on different observation planes, or the aerial postures and heights of the toes and heels when they leave the ground. One gait analysis with our system can generate more than 300 parameters. You can see the detailed 3D data of the feet in the report, and there's also the COP motion trajectory to infer dynamic pressure changes. For scenarios that require the absolute value of plantar pressure and balance assessment, our system can be combined with a plantar pressure plate for special static and dynamic plantar pressure and balance tests.
If the sensors are attached to the shoe surface or heel, no matter what fixing method is used, it's very difficult to avoid the inconsistent positions of the sensors at the beginning and during the test due to the operator's habits, the shape of the patient's shoes, and displacement during exercise. The result of using this kind of solution is data distortion. Practice has proved that using the external - sensor solution to compare and evaluate patients before and after treatment and record rehabilitation progress is very bad. Our sensors are firmly fixed in the grooves of the testing insoles, with the same initial position and no displacement during the test. Whether it's multiple tests on the same patient by the same therapist or by different therapists, the data repeatability and consistency are almost exactly the same.
In addition, our testing insoles have no arch design. The testing insoles are placed in the shoes that patients usually wear for testing. Why is that? First of all, gait analysis is a functional test. We should try to let patients be in a natural state to collect their most real gait. Testing insoles with an arch design will change the patients' gait parameters, which is unprofessional in product design. The shoes that patients usually wear have their own gait characteristics, which we should preserve. We should avoid letting patients test bare - foot or with sensors attached, as this will cause iatrogenic interference, change the patients' proprioception or make them feel nervous, thus affecting the collection of their real gait.
In a word, only by working with therapists can you understand the pain points in clinical practice. Data accuracy is the bottom line for a measuring device, but it's not easy to achieve. We provide an affordable alternative to having a gait analysis laboratory that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Every therapist can afford it. At the same time, we take the gait analysis technology out of the laboratory. It's not limited by the venue. Tests can be carried out in outpatient clinics, at home, or remotely, benefiting more patients.