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Clinical Use of Gait Analysis for the Athlete

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Observational Gait Analysis (OGA) has been utilized by clinicians for more than a century and still used in practice today. OGA is an inexpensive method for obtaining a visual assessment of the human gait, but has limitations. The primary criticism of OGA is the limited reproducibility and usefulness of the data and/or subjective observations. Researchers and clinicians began to work on to standardize OGA by creating the Physician Rating Scale (PRS) [1]. The researchers would evaluate six variables on a 2–4 point scale. An example of one of the variables is the knee position at mid-stance. This variable shows a good to excellent reliability, yet only has a moderate level of accuracy.

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  1. The Running Institute, Chicago, IL, USA

    Michael Chin D.P.M.

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  1. American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine Fellow, American College of Sports Medicine Chief of Podiatric Surgery, Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center, Florida Southern College Foot and Ankle Associates, Lakeland, Florida, USA

    Matthew B. Werd

  2. Lakeland, Florida, USA

    E. Leslie Knight

  3. Adjunct Clinical Faculty, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

    Paul R. Langer

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Chin, M. (2017). Clinical Use of Gait Analysis for the Athlete. In: Werd, M., Knight, E., Langer, P. (eds) Athletic Footwear and Orthoses in Sports Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52136-7_4

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