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Anyone involved in the study of gait and treatment of lower limb disorders will appreciate that during the average gait cycle, feet only spend about six tenths of a second in contact with a hard hostile surface.
During this time, the foot has to move from being a rigid structure to being a loose bag of bones shock attenuator and back. An awful amount for a lot of auricular surfaces to do in a very short period of time.
Many functional orthopaedic disorders of the lower limbs and lumbar spine at present go undetected. It is impossible to see with the naked eye all the anatomical activities which occur so rapidly in that short window of time. Therefore, disorders are unrecognised and are treated with a wide range of trial and error therapies.
The orthoscanner offers the clinician the opportunity to capture information regarding these defects.
The orthoscanner consists of a four-metre walkway into which have been set five high-speed colour video cameras. Each camera is capable of capturing pictures at 25 frames per second of a patient's gait and relaying that information to a database.
One can replay such footage captures adn review by single frame different aspects of the lower limb and foot for exact interpretation of motion. In addition, a built-in geometric program permits the accurate measurement of angular segmental relationships.
The orthoscanner captures over 100 auditable segments of information which is exact and reproducible.
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