Services Available:

1. Clinical Gait Analysis

A comprehensive initial evaluation is performed to determine how your anatomical structure, muscle flexibility, and strength may influence the way you run or walk.

A gait analysis includes the monitoring of movement patterns as you run or walk on a treadmill to determine joint angles and excessive or atypical movements.

Videotaping is done from the front, side, and rear to provide a visual analysis of how you run and walk.

A final detailed report is provided during a follow-up visit with specific recommendations to help resolve your pain and symptoms.

Recommendations are typically made in the following areas:

Therapeutic intervention for strengthening and/or increasing muscle flexibility.

Gait mechanics can be altered to change the way you walk and run.

Orthotics or shoe inserts which control unwanted movement.

Footwear to optimize your performance.

2. Running Injury Evaluation

Through scientific investigations, several clinical and mechanical factors have been identified which contribute to the development of injuries.

An evaluation for all runners to determine the cause of your running injuries through measurement of specific clinical and biomechanical factors.

Specific individual recommendations are provided.  

3. Walking Injury Evaluation

After one year of research and pilot testing, several unique clinical and biomechanical factors have been identified which contribute to the development of injuries in older adult walkers.

This evaluation is designed for walkers to identify factors which may predispose them to injury such as footwear, muscular flexibility, strength, and gait mechanics.

Specific individual recommendations are provided.