Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Clinical Gait Analysis and Gait Rehabilitation
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Core Programme
Making better measurements
The Gait CCRE is one of the few centres internationally with the critical mass and resource base to undertake the work of establishing an evidence base for the next generation of measurement technology.
Our aim is to develop the best possible measurements for gait analysis. Our team is testing whether new technology gives repeatable results and how valid the results are.
This expertise has led UK-based VICON to use the Gait CCRE as the major test site for the new generation of its modelling software.
Despite the advances in technology and research, there is still very little known about how an individual's gait pattern varies during the day or between days. Researchers are testing how accurate measuring systems need to be to detect these subtle changes.
One of the programme's most exciting projects is the Gaitabase. In what is becoming the ultimate collaborative research project, researchers from across the world can use the Internet to upload their own data to the Gaitabase and compare it either with data collected within the Gait CCRE or any other international partners they may wish to work with.
Developed by Gait CCRE post-doctoral research fellow Oren Tirosh, the Gaitabase will be launched in Amsterdam in September 2006 at the first Joint Meeting of the ESMAC and the (North American) GCMAS.
Gaitabase can be found at http://gaitabase.rch.org.au/