Biomark: A Toolbox for Visualization and Kinematic Gait Analysis

Abstract

Visualization and kinematic analysis of gait with computer programs and quantitative metrics are nowadays essential tools for the characterization of normal and pathological patterns, as well as for the diagnosis and rehabilitation in gait alterations. However, most of the software that is used for the acquisition systems in the gait labs, estimates a predetermined and restricted number of parameters, conditioning and limiting the work of the medical specialists, either in follow-up studies of individual cases or in the gait description between populations. The objective in this work, is to implement a computational tool that accesses the records of the databases generated by gait analysis equipment, for the visualization and obtaining of quantitative metrics from these kinematic studies, facilitating in this way, the identification of normal and pathological gait patterns, as well as facilitate the statistical estimation inter- and intra-patient in the development of comparative studies.