Gait Kinetic Index

The Gait Kinetic Index (GKI) is the systematic study of the human motion, based on the Gait analysis, which allows to measure extensively the gait pathology taking into consideration kinetic aspects of gait pattern.

History

The Gait Kinetic Index is based on the Gait analysis, and was proposed by Veronica Cimolin, Pier Francesco Costici, Claudia Condoluci and Manuela Galli publishing an article on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering Journal. They proposed the GKI after applied this method on 57 patients with diplegic cerebral palsy and 18 subjects with no known gait pathology.^[1]

Parameters

It is based on six variables:

Hip moment
Knee moment
Ankle moment
Hip power
Knee power
Ankle power

References

^ Cimolin, Veronica; Condoluci, Claudia; Costici, Pier Francesco; Galli, Manuela (2019). "A proposal for a kinetic summary measure: The Gait Kinetic Index". Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering. 22 (1): 94–99. doi:10.1080/10255842.2018.1536750. PMID 30444127. S2CID 53564049.

[1] Cimolin, Veronica; Condoluci, Claudia; Costici, Pier Francesco; Galli, Manuela (2019). "A proposal for a kinetic summary measure: The Gait Kinetic Index". Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering. 22 (1): 94–99. doi:10.1080/10255842.2018.1536750. PMID 30444127. S2CID 53564049.

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