Clinical Gait Analysis in Children: Progress and Relevance
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Child Neurology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 November 2024 | Viewed by 1965
Special Issue Editors
Interests: (neuro)orthopedics; neurology; rehabilitation; sports and podiatry with an emphasis on children
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Often taken for granted, skills such as walking, running or other locomotor modes are deemed vital aspects of mobility in children. Quantitative motion analysis facilitates the identification of atypical characteristics, helps observing and evaluating them and assists in identifying the source of impairments. This special issue focuses on the application of clinical human movement science with an emphasis on biomechanics of locomotion. Special attention will be put on the value of motion capturing in the context of medical and clinical treatments with various tools, devices and technologies. Main focus will be put on 3 key topics:
- Better detect pathologies and understand their genesis.
- Optimize diagnostics and clinical decisions making.
- Enhance interventions, such as exercises, therapy, orthoses, walking aids, drugs or invasive treatments to alleviate impairments and lower the burden for children.
The spectrum of cohorts may be multifaceted. Methodological work that demonstrates and optimizes the applicability, accuracy and validity of motion capture technology in the medical context is welcome, too.
While the scope of this special issue is to be diverse, it is mandatory that each publication comments in detail on the added value and benefit of the findings from the perspective of practitioners, caregivers, families and foremost of the pediatric patients' point of view.
Dr. Matthias Hösl
Dr. Nathalie Alexander
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gait
- gait analysis
- biomechanics
- motion analysis
- movement analysis
- motion capture
- 3D motion analysis
- kinematics
- electromyography
- rehabilitation
- orthotics
- musculoskeletal abnormalities
- rehabilitation
- movement disorders
- neuropediatrics
- neurology
- pediatric orthopedics
