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A Smartphone-Based System For Clinical Gait Assessment, Andres Alfredo Perez Leon Jun 2016

A Smartphone-Based System For Clinical Gait Assessment, Andres Alfredo Perez Leon

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Patients with lower limbs problems are an increasing population in the US and many of them require surgery and its subsequent post-op Physical Therapy (PT). For all these patients, tracking their progress and evolution towards full recovery is very important. To assess the patients and track their progress, patients are usually required to perform very specific tests administered by a physical therapist. These tests either require very expensive equipment or rather require the subjective experience of the physical therapist who administer them. One of these tests is the Functional Gait Assessment (FGA) test, perhaps the most widely adopted one for …