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An Investigation Of Gait Analysis For Stroke Patients By Computer Dynography System, Alice May-Kuen Wong, Chrong-Jyue Tsai, Fuk-Tan Tang, Pao-Tsai Cheng, Wei-Hsien Hong, Ming-Yih Lee

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

There are many techniques and methods for gait analysis, but the data are not easy for the clinician to read and to correlate clinically in patients with neurological deficits such as stroke. In this study, we tried to simplify the kinetic gait data of 102 functionally ambulant stroke patients in a more simple way through pattern recognition in addition to conventional gait parameters and compared them with 50 healthy subjects. All of the stroke patients had received rehabilitation programs and were functionally ambulant. The computer DynoGraphy (CDG) system was used for gait analysis. The foot contact patterns based on pattern …