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Normal parameters of gait are?
These are all issues of the dimensions that one is to travel physicaly through as they walk.
Base Width, how wide are their feet, x
Step length how far they step, z
Stride length same as step length, z
Lateral pelvic shift , how far thepelvis shifts, straifs to the right or to the left, X
Vertical pelvic shift, this is interesting, is it translational, or is it rotational, translational is just on the X axis and changing it Y, but rotation is changing both the X and Y
Pelvic rotation, here we say it out right at it is rotation, so it is on the Y axis and the x and z change
Normal cadence, how many steps are we to make in a minute, why is he fast, maybe he can not control it unless he is going fast like someone who does not have control in their ice skating so they just go fast, or why are they too slow, why can’t they speed up, why are they shuffling.
When should one do a gair assessment?
Enever you are looking and doing a Lower limb assessment, so then the gait is also part of the lower, no?
When you are doing LQ screen you must also be concerned of the gait, because, like we just did say, that it is also part of the LQ.
If a person is falling, that could really really be tied into their gait.
Amd if they habpve neurological issues that needs to be further looked at.
Base width distance is?
Normal is 2 to 4 inches
Normal step length?
Distance between opposite feet
Normally 14 to 16 inches
Varies with age and height
Stride length?
Is the linear distance in the plane of
progression between successive points of foot to floor contact of the same foot
Normally 27.5 to 32.3 inches
Lateral pelvic shift.
As you walk, you shift your weight, it makes you strafe,
Is the side to side movement of the pelvis during gait
Normally 1 inch
Pelvic rotation
Necessary in order to lengthen the femur
! Reduces amplitude of displacement
! Total of 8 degrees of pelvic rotation
◦ 4 degrees forward on the swing leg
◦ 4 degrees backward on the stance leg
◦ Thorax rotates in the opposite direction for
balance
If you have a higher swing leg rotation, it will make your lumbar
spine more painful.
If your pelvis is rotating the thorax is to counterrotate so that youstay sagittal.
Normal cadence?
Between 30-120 steps per minute
Normal walking speed 3-4 mph
Heel strike/FF
Has alot of forces coming down, and so we need to be able to be calm about it.
Shock absorption with stability
Job of MS?
Stability to allow contra LE to swing through Stable and tall, so that the other leg can travel through.
Job of HO/TO?
Prepare LE for swing phaseTo kick off
Here the heal is taking off and the toes, with a strong plantar flexion, will propel the leg forward, if this is weak, then we will require other compensatory motion to allow the leg to get from its point of origin to its desination.
Think if it now and see if it is what we shall say later..
Job of Acceleration to the Midswing?
Foot clearanceDon’t drag the foot.
Job of Midswing to
deceleration?
Step length and foot positioning
To make sure that the foot is in the right place, not
crossing over, to put it back down on the correct place.
You do not want the leg to just go forward and make you fly forward, Thats how chuck norris flies, on his own momentum.
Foot/Ankle’Rocker
Purpose?
Allows for the smooth forward transition of the tibia on the ankle.
Why does the heel strike have it at pronation, at dorsiflexion, and why does the toe off, plantar flexion, have it at suppination?
At pronation it is softer to absorb shock and at suppination it is stiffer to launch.
At heel strike there is a _________ which needs the _________ to keep the ankle from __________?
Plantarflexion moment,
Dorsiflexion,
Just flopping down
At foot flat there is ____________ moment, and so we will need the ___________, so that the tibia will not ___________.
Plantarflexion moment,
Dorsiflexors,
Just flop on t
At midstance there is a __________ moment for the ankle, so we will require _________, to keep the tibia from falling ___________.
Dorsiflexion moment,
At the heal off there is a _________ moment,
So we will need the ___________,
to prevent ____________.
Dorsiflexion moment,
Plantarflexors,
the tibia from falling forward.
At kick off there is also a dorsiflexion moment, so we will need the plantarflexors to prevent the tibia from falling forwards.
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When the knee has a flexion moment what will you need to make knee from not buckling?
The quadroceps, the knee extensors.
Flex Flex Extend Extend Flex
These are the point of the knee undergo various moments, and at the flexion moments wew ill need to make use of the extensors, the quadroceps, to prevent the knee from buckling, and at the extensor moment there really isn’t any need for the muscles, the quadroceps.
Flexion, Flexion, Extension, Extension, Extension.
Heel strike, Foot flat, Midstance, Heel off, Kick off.
At all places that there is a flexion moment there will be a need to counter that fall forward, so you will need to make use of the hip extensors, the glut maxs, and
When there is an extension give, moment, then you need to counter that extension with the hip flexors, the iliopsoas.
First phase of swing?
Second phase of swing?
Last phase of swing?
Acceleration
Midstance
Deceleration
At midstance what kind of rotation moment is there at the knee and ankle?
Internal rotation.
At the knee and ankle, during midstance, that there is a huge internal rotation moment, what will limit that internal rotation for botht he knee and ankle?
And once we have this counter force what does it give us?
Popliteus, the hamstrings are secondary and will tire with overuse.
The posterior tibialis, that does eversion, and so it also seems to be able to do external rotation.
Flexor’Synergy allows for?
=’Allows’for’foot’clearance’
Because the hip is up,
The knee is flexed,
And the ankle is dorsiflexed.
Extension’Synergy’
Rotatory’Synergy’
=?
=’Combined’give’us’stability’
I guess that when we see the knee and the hip and ankle in extension it just becomes more stiff, more stable.
If you dorsiflex it will cause you to fall forward, and to counter this, you also flex your knee, to make the weight shift
backwards. And if you are stuck in plantarflexion so your weight is shifted to the back and to make the weight shift to thefront, it will extend the knee to shift forward or just because it actually directly causes knee extension.
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You need to see where your weight is falling to and…
Counter that with shifting yourself in a position that will make it that the your new weight will be in a opposite direction of the previous moment.
Nothing new.
Lack’of’flexor’synergy?’ What do you do to compensate?
You will go and circumvent your leg to gain clearance.
Lack’of’extensor’synergy/’rotatory’synergy?’’
How will you compensate?
Using more muscles, if you have week extensor, you will leanforward, or you will go and use the other knee more.
So if you are falling into knee flexion but have weak quads, so you need that knee to go into extension, so you will lean forward to shift your GRF forward and force your knee into extension.
The plantar flexion will lessen the angle between the heel and the calfs, another way to lessen that angle is to do knee extension, so if the achilie’s tendon is out, you will compensate with the quads.
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How’can’we’compensate?’‘• Ie’pt’can’not’df’during’swing’phase’
• Compensa 2
If your foot is dragging in the saggital plane, you will circumvent the leg so that it will allow you to get to the end position, but it is using more energy, and you are also hitting things, and the sartorious, which does the hip flexion at external rotation, is not meant repeatedly keep to that motion, and so the sartorious will get tired.
How’can’we’compensate?’‘• Ie’pt’can’not’df’during’swing’phase
• Or’we’don’t’compensate’at’all’And you just drag your foot oryou buckle.
If you cannot do closed chain dorsi flexion, which is pronation, as we did say earlier that pronation at dorsiflexion is softer to be able to absorb the shock, you will go and pronate the ankle in another way. How?
You externaly rotate the hip, and you evert, and you pronate.
What is the heel whip?
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Walk at ________ _________ to see if that affects gait
different speeds
Should observe _________, __________, _________ views
anterior, posterior and lateral
Observe _________ to __________ for open chain…
proximal to distal
Observe ________ to ________ for close chain…
distal to proximal
Gait Evaluation 1- Gross analysis
- Asymmetry
- Posture
- Gross abnormalities
Gait Evaluation
2- General Qualities
- Stride length
- Step frequency
- Time of walking
- Speed of walking
- Duration of the complete walking cycle
Gait Evaluation
3- Specific analysis by joint
- Foot/ankle-Knee
- Hip
- Trunk
- UE
Antalgic " Ataxic Gait " Hemiplegic gait " Parksonian gait " Scissors gait " Steppage or drop foot gait
Are examples of?
Gross gait analomies.
There are fids of most on youtube.
WHAT IS AN ATALGIC GAIT?
“limping”
# Due to pain, and the body is self protecting itself # The stance phase on the affected leg is shorter due to remove the pain as quickly as possible
# The swing phase of the uninvolved leg is decreased. Why would this decrease? Maybe because you know that you will be stepping on a pained leg, and if the stride length is long then more pressure will be put on it at touch down, so you try to lessen the pressure on the involved leg by making sure that the stride length is short.
If you know of a more correct reason, please let me know.
WHAT IS ATAXIC GAIT?
Poor balance and a broad base, to not fall.
# Cerebellar ataxia includes
! A lurch or stagger
! All the movements are exaggerated
! Slapping of the ground
! Irregular, jerky and weaving
# Due to poor sensation or lack of musclecoordination
Parkisonism walk???
WHAT IS A HEMIPLEGIC GAIT?
# Swings the paraplegic leg outward and ahead in a circle (circumduction) or pushed ahead # The affected limb is carried across the trunk for balance
We spoke of circumvection before. It was used when there was weak flexor syngergies. It just sends the leg forward without having to bend the hip, knee, or ankle. So too here.
PARKSONIAN GAIT
Neck, trunk and knee gaits are flexed
# Characterized by shuffling or short rapid steps
# Arms held stiffly and do not have their normal
associated movement
# May lean forward and walk progressively faster as though they are unable to stop (Festination
gait)
SCISSORING GAIT
The result of spastic paralysis of the hip adductor muscles, which causes the knee to drawn
together so that legs can swung forward only
with great effort
# This is seen in spastic paraplegics and may be
referred to as a neurogenic or spastic gait
WHAT IS STEPPAGE OR DROP FOOT GAIT?
# Pt has a weak df’s resulting in a drop foot # In order to avoid dragging the toes against theground # The pt lift the knee higher than normal
Second part of the gait analysis?
Once the first step of the gait analysis has been done, the GAP, the gait,a ssymetry, the posture, then the following is supposed to be done. Then look for ◦ WBOS ◦ NBOS ◦ Stride length ◦ Step frequency ◦ Time of walking ◦ Speed of walking ◦ Duration of the complete walking cycle
Before was his beneral idea of looking at them in a general idea, the gait, the posture, the assymetry, they are very much reminiscent of functional level of assesment. The walking, the standing, the symmetry.
But now we are looking at the more specific breakdown of the walking. Its more basic elements.
The bos, how long is the stride length, cadence, and how long it takes to walk.
What ca pn affect step length?
! Decreased DF of the contralateral wb LE
! Decreased hip ext on contralateral LE
When my right leg is about to perform heel strike, it makes it that the counterlateral leg needs to be in dorsiflexion, so if it cannot do dorsiflexion, then, the stride length will be diminshed.
And if that leg cannot do extension, then the stride length will again be limited.
How much is a WBOS and what can cause it?
We said a NBOS is 4 inches, so anything wider than a 4” BOS is a WBOS.
And the way that you can get it is :
! Abductor ms contracture, the abductors pull the person into valgus
Instability, you are unstable so you want to be stable so you walk wide
! LLD, one leg is longer than another and to allow you to have both legs properly leveled a WBOS will ensue
! Genu valgum- or just that the legs are wide
! Fear, fear of falling, so a woder base of support to cause it to be more stable.
! Cerebellar dysfunction, the person has ataxia of the cerebellum, so they are not smooth, they cannot do last minute moves, and so they will want something that is very stable so that they will not fall.
What would cause a NBOS?
Now it cannot be any real neurological issue of ataxia, because ataxia makes it less coordinateda nd a NBOS is to require more coordination. So it is due to something else.
! Adductor ms contracture, the muscles bring the person into adduction
Genu varum, the bones are structure into varus.
So we see the functional part, the GAP, the Gait, Assymetry, the Posture, and then the specific details if the walking cycle, and now the third part of the gait annalysis will ask us to look at…
The specific joints.
Ankle, knee, hip, thorso, shoulders, neck.