Beyond Distance: How Sensor Insoles Enhance Clinical Walk Tests in Neurological Patients
This article explores how using sensor insoles to instrument patients during the 2MWT introduces a new approach to clinical gait assessment. Beyond the traditional quantitative measure of distance, this method provides a movement quality perspective, offering clinically relevant insights into load patterns, foot movements, timing, and symmetry.
The Timed Up & Go Test for assessing patients’ functional mobility
The Timed Up & Go Test is a clinical tool to assess mobility, balance, and fall risk. Instrumenting this test with sensor insoles offers advanced gait metrics, enhancing patient evaluations and improving predictive outcomes.
Testing patients’ balance skills with in-shoe measurement systems
Balance assessments play a crucial role in evaluating fall risk, especially in older adults and individuals with neurological conditions. While traditional tests offer practical insights, sensor-based measurements provide precise and objective data, allowing for a deeper understanding of balance in clinical and research settings.
The Balance Side Hop – relevance, outcome metrics and tips for trainers
Explore how the Balance Side Hop test assesses dynamic stability and landing mechanics, offering valuable insights into managing RTS decisions following lower limb injuries, including ACL injuries. Discover how these metrics help trainers and therapists to make more informed decisions about athlete readiness and injury prevention.
The 30 Seconds Side Hop – relevance, outcome metrics and tips for trainers
This article highlights the significance of the 30 Seconds Side Hop in rehabilitation, focusing on its role in assessing limb symmetry and tracking progress after lower limb injuries. It provides insights into effective testing protocols, outcome metrics, and tips for trainers to ensure a comprehensive return-to-sport strategy.
The Balance Front Hop – relevance, outcome metrics and tips for trainers
Discover the relevance of the Balance Front Hop test for athletic training in return to sports cycles, its key outcome metrics, and tips for trainers and therapists on how outcomes following ACL injuries can be improved.
Baseline for Success – functional movement tests and reference data as a starting point for youth athlete development
In competitive sports, everyone pushes their limits. Through regular baseline screenings using functional movement tests and performance tests on the lower extremities, medical and sports staff receive valuable information to push these limits further and enable athletes to achieve successful athletic development.
The Single Leg Jump for Distance – relevance, outcome metrics and tips for trainers
This article explores the role of a single leg jump for distance test for performance and rehabilitation monitoring, providing valuable insights for trainers and therapists.
The trainer in your shoes – sensors for objectivizing screening tests in performance in sports
State-of-the-art foot sensors and automated testing algorithms enable sports professionals to provide evidence-based support for injured athletes through competition preparation. As these innovations transition from science to practice, they must offer flexible use, high data quality, and good usability.
Shoe size independent foot pressure analysis
Learn how the OpenGo system makes foot pressure distributions and related measures independent from the shoe size of different subjects.
ReGo gait analyses for functional assessment of lower limbs braces and prostheses in orthopedic aids retail
This article explores automated gait analysis via sensor insoles to assess lower limb braces’ and prostheses’ biomechanical function, highlighting its objective, quantifiable benefits.
Event Based Analysis of Motion Sequences
Learn how to easily extract the sensor raw data of motion sequences using event markers and Moticon’s OpenGo Python library.
The Counter Movement Jump – relevance, outcome metrics and tips for trainers
The Counter Movement Jump allows objective assessments of explosive strength metrics such as jump height and ground reaction force as well as foot loading and coordination.
Gait Analysis with 29 lines of Python code – programming with the OpenGo text export
Learn how 29 lines of Python code can analyze gait data from Moticon’s OpenGo Sensor Insoles. Plot per-step total force curves for different walking speeds programmatically.
Foot pressure related outcomes of the OpenGo gait report
Learn about the different foot pressure distributions computed by the OpenGo gait report, and how they are exported to spreadsheets.
Foot pressure analysis functions
Learn about easy-to-use tools for working with foot pressure and computing accumulated pressure distributions using the OpenGo analysis functions.
Foot pressure visualization widgets
Explore how the OpenGo software visualizes foot pressure distributions in real time, using various widgets for comprehensive motion analysis and plantar pressure mapping.
Realtime foot pressure mapping
OpenGo sensor insoles offer realtime foot pressure mapping during motion with powerful visualization widgets in the OpenGo software, useful for gait analysis, functional movement studies, and biofeedback.
Gait analysis and biofeedback training for trauma patients
Biofeedback training with trauma patients helps to control partial weight bearing as well as with normalizing the gait pattern, and enhances patient involvement
What are the advantages of longterm patient monitoring with sensor insoles?
Moticon OpenGo sensor insoles can be of great help monitoring gait. The built- in smart recording feature collects data when you walk and stops if you rest or sit. This makes it possible that you do up to two weeks non stop gait monitoring.
The Drop Jump Test – relevance, outcome metrics and tips for athletic training
Discover the significance of drop jump tests for tailored athletic training. Enhance strength, reactiveness, and injury resistance.
Why maximum body mass for measurements isn’t just one number when talking pressure mapping systems
Discover the maximum body mass for Moticon sensor insoles based on shoe size. Get insights for accurate biomechanical measurements.
The Timed Up and Go Test’s outcome parameters
The Timed Up and Go Test assesses mobility, balance, and fall risk, providing valuable data on gait and functional ability, particularly in elderly and neurological patients.
The 10 Meter Walk and Return Test’s outcome parameters
The 10 Meter Walk and Return Test evaluates walking speed and functional mobility, offering valuable insights into gait and balance, especially in neurological populations.
The 2 Minute Walk Test’s outcome parameters
The 2-Minute Walk Test is essential for assessing walking capacity and endurance, providing a quick snapshot of physical function in diverse populations.
The 15 Seconds Treadmill Run Test’s outcome parameters
ReGo’s 15 Seconds Treadmill Run Test provides detailed running analysis, highlighting key parameters like gait line and cadence to improve performance and reduce injury risk.
The 15 Seconds Treadmill Walk Test’s outcome parameters
Gait testing on a treadmill with ReGo provides valuable insights into human movement for medical, clinical, sports, and research applications. It analyzes gait lines, stride length, and foot angles to inform diagnosis, treatment, and performance optimization.
The Free Distance Walk and Return Test’s outcome parameters
Gait analyses are essential for diagnosing conditions, planning interventions, and tracking rehabilitation progress. ReGo offers unbiased measurements, including force, pressure, and spatio-temporal parameters, helping optimize patient outcomes. Learn more and request a detailed parameter list.
Foot Tapping’s outcome parameters
Discover the Foot Tapping test’s role in assessing lower limb neuromuscular function for athletic performance. Explore skip counts, skip frequency, plantar pressure distribution, and center of pressure outcomes.
The Single Leg Stance Test’s outcome parameters
ReGo enhances balance testing with quantitative assessments for athletes, elderly patients, and injury recovery. See how it improves decision-making for trainers and therapists.
The Balance Squat Test’s outcome parameters
The Balance Squat assesses dynamic balance, detects asymmetries, predicts injury risk, and supports RTS decisions after ACL injuries or reconstruction.
The 30 Seconds Side Hop’s outcome parameters
Discover how the 30 Seconds Side Hop test assesses ACL injury recovery. Evaluate hop performance, asymmetries, and pressure distribution in RTS testing.
The Balance Front Hop’s test outcomes
The Balance Front Hop assesses readiness for RTS post-injury, focusing on stability and asymmetries. Explore key outcome parameters for enhanced decision-making in sports rehabilitation.
The Balance Side Hop’s outcome parameters
Use Balance Side Hop to assess stability after ankle sprains or ACL injuries. Measure Sway Area & Balance Point to guide return-to-sports decisions. Access PDF for comprehensive details.
The Drop jump’s outcome parameters
Uncover athlete potential with Drop Jump insights. Explore reactive strength index, force-time curve, and more. Download parameter list for comprehensive analysis.
The Single Leg Jump Distance’s outcome parameters
The primary outcome parameter of the ReGo Single Leg Jump Distance is jump distance. ReGo offers a variety of additional quantitative and qualitative parameters to evaluate stability and symmetry.
The Counter Movement Jump’s outcome parameters
Primary outcome parameter in CMJ: jump height. ReGo system offers insights into force, timing, pressure, and load distribution pre-takeoff. Fill form for PDF with full parameter list and test details.
