- Paperback: 232 pages
- Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 3 edition (21 Nov 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0750652624
- ISBN-13: 978-0750652629
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.8 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 875,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Now onto its fourth edition this text aims to cover the gait cycle down to a tee. It starts you off on the basics and gradually progresses in more depth.
The subject of gait analysis is approached from a biomechanical point of view with a lot of joint angle analysis, levers and moments and quite a bit on the equipment used to analyse gait. At points you begin to feel like you are looking at a robot and you have to remind yourself that this is human gait analysis.
There does not seem to be much coverage of observational gait analysis which is one fundamental part of physiotherapy practice.
While this is generally a good book for gait analysis, for us, as physiotherapists, to benefit from it we may need to spend some time interpreting the text and applying it from a slightly different perspective.
- Steve Canning, In Touch, Spring 2008, No. 122. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
The subject of gait analysis is approached from a biomechanical point of view with a lot of joint angle analysis, levers and moments and quite a bit on the equipment used to analyse gait. At points you begin to feel like you are looking at a robot and you have to remind yourself that this is human gait analysis.
There does not seem to be much coverage of observational gait analysis which is one fundamental part of physiotherapy practice.
While this is generally a good book for gait analysis, for us, as physiotherapists, to benefit from it we may need to spend some time interpreting the text and applying it from a slightly different perspective.
- Steve Canning, In Touch, Spring 2008, No. 122. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Beginning and building on the basics of anatomy, physiology and biomechanics this text goes on to explain normal and pathological gait, emphasizing the clinical applications of gait analysis. The author covers the wide range of methods available to study gait, from the unaided eye to powerful computer-television systems and the book is accompanied by an interactive multimedia CD-ROM, with 'real' gait data from both a normal subject and a child with cerebral palsy.
This new edition brings gait analysis into the real world of the clinic and will be an invaluable help to students and practitioners of physical therapy, orthopaedics, neurology, rheumatology, rehabilitation, bioengineering, and indeed all those involved in the study of human movement.
Dr. Michael Whittle holds the Walter M. Cline Chair of Excellence in Rehabilitation Technology in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and has honorary appointments as Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitationin the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. He is a qualified doctor, and has higher degrees in physiology and biomedical engineering. He has spent over 20 years running gait analysis laboratories in the University of Oxford, England, and the University of Tennessee. He previously worked as principal coordinating scientist for the musculoskeletal experiments on NASA's Skylab space station.
This new edition brings gait analysis into the real world of the clinic and will be an invaluable help to students and practitioners of physical therapy, orthopaedics, neurology, rheumatology, rehabilitation, bioengineering, and indeed all those involved in the study of human movement.
Dr. Michael Whittle holds the Walter M. Cline Chair of Excellence in Rehabilitation Technology in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and has honorary appointments as Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitationin the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. He is a qualified doctor, and has higher degrees in physiology and biomedical engineering. He has spent over 20 years running gait analysis laboratories in the University of Oxford, England, and the University of Tennessee. He previously worked as principal coordinating scientist for the musculoskeletal experiments on NASA's Skylab space station.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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A Real Beginner's Guide,
This review is from: Gait Analysis: An Introduction (Paperback)
Gait Analysis by M.W. Whittle is a great book for those interested in biomechanics, sports and general movement of the human body. It comes highly recommended for anybody doing a sport science or physiotherapy related degree. This book is basic yet covers everthing associated with gait analysis. It covers "Normal Gait" and talks about variations of gait caused by injury or disease for example, amputee through to cerebral palsy. Readers are fully informed about the many methods avaliable for assessing human gait included in this section are helpful tips to ensure reliability and validity of you data collected. After each section a full reference list is given to enable researchers learn more.The additional CD-ROM enables readers to look at data and helps understanding of the subject.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Good For the Fundamentals & More,
By Douglas P. Murphy "Author, The Griffon Trilog... (Charlottesville) - See all my reviews
This review is from: An Introduction to Gait Analysis (Paperback)
This book takes you through the various phases of gait, the determinants of gait and then through gait deviations and pathology with simplicity and clarity for the most part. In reading about gait it is easy to get lost in a discussion of various force vectors, and this book strives and succeeds for the most part in keeping the reader out of such a morass. The book continues beyond gait deviations to discuss gait labs and also cutting edge subjects in gait. Good background reading for anyone with a need or interest in this kind of information.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Gait Book,
This review is from: An Introduction to Gait Analysis (Paperback)
Another fantastic book and a real winner when it comes to giving you the right info in passing your first year at Uni, invaluable, relatively easy to read, but you might need to go over it a few times for things to sink in, nothing wrong with that when gait is such a tricky subject to get your head round.
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