Emerging Technologies for Gait Analysis and Improvement: Sports and Clinical Applications

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue of the Sensors journal, entitled “Emerging Technologies for Gait Analysis and Improvement: Sports and Clinical Applications”. 

Gait analysis refers to the study of human locomotion in a broad sense. Specifically, it consists of evaluating locomotor activity qualitatively and/or quantitatively from a more- or less-sophisticated instrumentation or simply by visual observation. Gait analysis has many applications, especially in the fields of rehabilitation and sports. In the rehabilitation field, gait analysis is classically employed to assess walking ability, identify gait abnormalities, and determine curative and preventive solutions. In sports, this approach is used to analyze athletic performance, identify the determinants of performance, predict the risk of injury and illness, and design interventions to optimize performance and prevent musculoskeletal injuries as well as sports illnesses. 

Recently, technological advances have fostered the development of wearable, easy-to-install, and non-intrusive technologies that offer exciting possibilities for gait assessment and improvement. The objective of this special issue is to present recent results regarding the development and application of these emerging technologies in clinical and sports settings. In particular, this Special Issue will report on various sensors for gait analysis, such as inertial measurement units, plantar pressure measurement systems, and video-based markerless technologies. In addition, this Special Issue will also cover wearable technologies for gait rehabilitation and augmentation (exoskeletons, peripheral neuromodulation systems, etc.). Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts for publication in the following areas (but not limited to):

• Development and application of novel technologies for gait assessment;
• Wearable systems for gait training and augmentation;
• Gait assistive technologies;
• Innovative tools for gait analysis in sports;
• Validation of video-based markerless technologies for gait analysis;
• Tools and methods for continuous gait measurement in free-living conditions.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in IJERPH.

Dr. Teddy Caderby
Prof. Dr. Nicolas Peyrot
Dr. Jean Slawinski
Dr. Eric Yiou
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sensors is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• walking
• running
• assessment
• monitoring
• wearable sensor
• wireless sensor
• markerless technology
• smart system
• body-worn device
• assistive device
• sport
• rehabilitation