With the Running, Walking and Foot Analysis we perform in our clinic, we can find answers to many orthopedic problems you experience.
Do you have back, hip, knee, foot or ankle pain?
Do you often find it very difficult to move?
Does every pair of shoes or slippers you buy feel like they don’t belong to you after a while?
Are the soles of your shoes unevenly destroyed?
The above problems are quite common in society and often remain unresolved. When patients go to the doctor most often with pain, usually only the painful area is evaluated and temporary solutions are produced.
What if we tell you that these problems are often caused by the imbalance in your foot structure? Yes, you did not read it wrong, even your back pain can be caused by your foot shape.
Stepping is the basis of the movement that allows us to do many things in daily life. With stepping, we walk and sometimes run faster.
Basically, our feet are the organs that carry the entire weight of our body. Disorders here affect our entire musculoskeletal structure from the bottom up. We can roughly liken this to a building with a crooked foundation leaning as it rises.
If the steps taken are inappropriate, after a certain period of time, pain can occur throughout the body, especially in the foot, ankle, knee and hip.
Patients who apply to our clinic with these complaints are informed by our orthopedics and traumatology specialist after a detailed examination and Running, Walking and Foot Analysis is performed. In the patient who is thought to have foot problems, the foot type is first determined.
Foot Types
Normal Foot
Flat Base
Pit Base
Foot analysis and foot pressure map:
The patient’s foot pressure is analyzed in the presence of expert professionals. (Red is the area where the pressure is the most intense; blue is the area where the pressure is the least.) In this way, the distribution of the load on the soles of the feet is determined. However, for the most accurate result, a gait analysis should also be performed.
Gait Analysis:
Gait analysis is a diagnostic method to clearly identify movement disorders.
A standardized examination is not always sufficient to determine which muscle or joint is responsible for the gait disorder.
If a disorder in foot function can be prevented before it causes a problem, it is possible to prevent future foot, leg, groin, lower back pain, cramps, rapid fatigue that leads to decreased daily performance and disability. It is especially important to have a gait analysis for people with high daily activity, those who are new to sports or those who do sports, and patients with circulatory disorders such as diabetes.
Gait analysis is not necessarily recommended for a specific group of patients. It is performed for everyone who needs it.
Why is Gait Analysis Necessary?
- It clearly identifies the main problem with your gait.
- It contributes significantly to deciding on the necessary treatment.
- Provides objective data for patient follow-up.
- It provides an objective assessment of the effectiveness of treatment.
How is Gait Analysis Performed?
Two types of methods are used in the Biomechanical kinesiology laboratory in our hospital:
1. Pressurized gait analysis with a walking pad
The person is both walking (dynamic measure) and standing (static measure) on this pad. Through the force platform on the pad, all movements of the joints during the walking function are automatically transferred to the computer. The transmitted information is evaluated and a result report supported by graphics is generated.
2.Biomechanical gait analysis
It is the analysis performed while the patient walks on a treadmill accompanied by motion-sensitive 3D (three-dimensional) cameras. In the analysis performed in this way, not only the sole of the foot but also the entire skeleton can be commented on.
To whom it is applied:
- People who want an assessment of foot structure and posture
- Flat feet (pes planus)
- High sole (pes cavus)
- Heel spur
- Pre- and post-treatment evaluation of congenital spine and spinal cord disorders (spina bifida)
- Spinal cord injury
- Hemiplegia (partial paralysis)
- Prosthesis fit in leg amputations (leg amputations and absence)
- Muscle diseases (muscular dystrophy)
- Parkinsonism
- Inflammatory and degenerative joint diseases
- Head trauma sequelae
- Multiple sclerosis
- Cerebral palsy (congenital muscle spasm)
- Before and after joint replacement surgeries (arthroplasty)
- Sports injuries
With more than 20 years of experience, we serve our patients in our polyclinic. You can contact us for all your Orthopedics and Traumatology problems. For this, you can contact us at any time through the channels on our web page.
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