Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1993-10-15
1995-12-12
Pellegrino, Stephen C.
Surgery
Truss
Pad
482 54, A61B 5103
Patent
active
054740878
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for characterizing the gait of a subject uses a treadmill having a movable support surface with multiple transducers mounted beneath the movable support surface. The subject performs locomotion on the movable surface. The computer accepts a series of signals from each transducer and identifies the occurrence of heel-strike and toe-off. The computer identifies the subject's activity as walking or as running. The computer identifies two non-contiguous groups of transducers that are measuring a force greater than zero associated with the two feet and calculates quantities related to the forces exerted by each foot during each phase of walking or running.
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NeuroCom International Inc.
Pellegrino Stephen C.
Tucker Guy
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