Video Running Gait Assessment
By: Dr. Kerry Rodocker-Wiarda Diplomate American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians
Gateway Chiropractic- South Shore, PLLC kwiarda @ gatewaychiropractic. com
What is Video Running Gait Assessment and How Does It Work?
Video gait analysis is taking video of you running from different angles and planes. Then a qualified professional analyzes that video in slow motion, using still frames and frame by frame motion to assess and determine how each joint is moving while you’ re running. They will assess how the muscles throughout your whole body is moving to control the joint movements. The doctor will compare one side to the other to pick out any asymmetries and motions that are abnormal. The professional will then provide you with insight into how you can decrease the stress to the injured areas if, you are feeling pain. They will give you gait strategies to make your run more efficient. The doctor may provide manual therapy specific to what you need to be able to run more efficiently and with less pain.
Which Runner Should Have a Video Running Gait Assessment?
Running video gait assessments combine the latest clinical and academic knowledge of the running with a 100 % customized analysis of the way you run. The runner who will benefit most from a running video gait assessment includes runners who:
• Have an injury or combination of past injuries
• Are frustrated because the standard diagnosis they received for their running pain does not seem to be addressing the root cause of their pain
• Love running and want to ensure that as much as possible, their running form today is not going to lead to injuries down the road
• Want to run faster and more efficiently, and want to see precisely what in their running form could be modified
Entire Body Analysis:
Customize to Your Form:
Everyone is unique. One-sizefits-all solution or best p ractices a re g re at f o r learning the best general principles, but everyone’ s body and running style is unique, and these slight differences can have major implications on the most important things for you to do to improve your running or eliminating your pain.
The most common running injury, repetitive knee pain, is frequently a result of hip tightness or lack of mobility, a gait asymmetry due to previous injury, foot strike pattern, or week core muscles. The experienced professional will analyze the entire body to address all probable causes.
Seek out an expert professional who will give you functional testing of your strength, mobility, endurance, neuromuscular control, a personalized running gait analysis, a biomechanical examination and analysis, a specific gait retraining strategy based on your analysis, an individual strength, mobility, neuromuscular control and movement retraining program based on your specific needs and a performance enhancement program for your specific goals.
25 MOMENTUM / March 2018