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Assessment of gait using components of the ground reaction force vector

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A system has been developed utilising data from force plates by means of which changes in patient's gait following a clinical procedure may be monitored and assessed on an outpatient basis. The technique is being used as an objective assessment in an ongoing trial of postmeniscectomy treatment regimes.

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  1. Dundee Limb Fitting Centre, 133 Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland

    M. O. Jarrett

  2. School of Bioengineering, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland

    P. R. Moore

  3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland

    A. J. G. Swanson

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Jarrett, M.O., Moore, P.R. & Swanson, A.J.G. Assessment of gait using components of the ground reaction force vector. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 18, 685–688 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02443146

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