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Since shifting my lower limb biomechanical knowledge base up a gear or two I've noticed the impact on my own clinical assessment. Just taking the time to check a patients FPI, static stance and watch their gait adds another flavour to my medical assessment. Although I'm aware that the risk is seeing 'everything' and jumping to conclusions. A little arch drop here, bit of tibial rotation there, a little circumduction during walking and hey presto a completely irrelevant hypothesis for what's causing the patient's problem (since all that has been present for years prior to any current issues...).
Anyhow, one of the big take home messages I've got from this site is that orthoses aren't the be all and end all and sticking foam under the foot to correct kinematic variants isn't a panacea, but it seems so often that's this is the approach taken.
I was chatting to one of our fantastic podiatrists the other day and asking her whether it was worth investing in video gait analysis on an appropriate (slat driven) treadmill, she replied that she'd rather have a pressure plate walk way. Now I know the technology is wonderful and produces lots of colourful pictures but wondered what EXACTLY they add. I guess they show progression angle, weight transference and allow detection of subtle changes in stride length variation and early lift off etc...but wondered how that would add value to the larger biomechanical assessment.
I guess my concern is that you send a patient down a walk way, note that they land more in pronation on one side than the other and then assume they need some form of arch support to correct the 'over pronation'. You stick the support in, send them down the walk way and hey presto the colours match up.
But, like my own embryonic biomechanical assessments, just because you see something doesn't mean it's relevant.
So are pressure plate systems just an expensive gadget or can they really add value?
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