{"title":"Observational gait analysis.","authors":"Leo Donnan","doi":"10.1097/MOP.0000000000001426","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>The review is aimed at practising paediatricians who want to improve their clinical skills in observational gait analysis. Many paediatric complaints relate to problems of walking or limb alignment, and only a small proportion of these are pathological. With a deeper understanding of normal gait and a framework to conduct an observational analysis, the clinician can feel more confident diagnosing and recognizing those walking patterns that need further investigation.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>Advances in instrumented gait analysis over the last two decades have provided deeper insights into the mechanisms of walking, how to interpret gait deviations, and their effect on locomotion. This has helped improve the quality of observational gait analysis and, in many ways, defined its limitations.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>This review explains the components of normal gait and provides a structured approach to observational gait analysis. It also discusses the cause of limps and expands upon the importance of understanding rotational deformities. Finally, some tools to enhance the observational analysis are presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":10985,"journal":{"name":"Current opinion in pediatrics","volume":"37 1","pages":"75-81"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Current opinion in pediatrics","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1097/MOP.0000000000001426","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2024/11/28 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PEDIATRICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Purpose of review: The review is aimed at practising paediatricians who want to improve their clinical skills in observational gait analysis. Many paediatric complaints relate to problems of walking or limb alignment, and only a small proportion of these are pathological. With a deeper understanding of normal gait and a framework to conduct an observational analysis, the clinician can feel more confident diagnosing and recognizing those walking patterns that need further investigation.
Recent findings: Advances in instrumented gait analysis over the last two decades have provided deeper insights into the mechanisms of walking, how to interpret gait deviations, and their effect on locomotion. This has helped improve the quality of observational gait analysis and, in many ways, defined its limitations.
Summary: This review explains the components of normal gait and provides a structured approach to observational gait analysis. It also discusses the cause of limps and expands upon the importance of understanding rotational deformities. Finally, some tools to enhance the observational analysis are presented.
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Current Opinion in Pediatrics is a reader-friendly resource which allows the reader to keep up-to-date with the most important advances in the pediatric field. Each issue of Current Opinion in Pediatrics contains three main sections delivering a diverse and comprehensive cover of all key issues related to pediatrics; including genetics, therapeutics and toxicology, adolescent medicine, neonatology and perinatology, and orthopedics. Unique to Current Opinion in Pediatrics is the office pediatrics section which appears in every issue and covers popular topics such as fever, immunization and ADHD. Current Opinion in Pediatrics is an indispensable journal for the busy clinician, researcher or student.
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