1. SIAMOC position paper on gait analysis in clinical practice: General requirements, methods and appropriateness. Results of an Italian consensus conference
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Tommaso Leo, Anna Castagna, Zimi Sawacha, Marco Rabuffetti, Fabiola Spolaor, L. Piccinini, L. Cavazzuti, M. Manca, Andrea Giovanni Cutti, Federica Verdini, Antonio De Tanti, Maurizio Petrarca, Giuseppe Vannozzi, Andrea Ravaschio, Ugo Della Croce, Maurizio Ferrarin, Rita Stagni, Ettore Beghi, P. Marchi, Andrea Cereatti, Marco Gasperi, Valentina Camomilla, Martina Del Maestro, Nino Basaglia, Maria Grazia Benedetti, Isabella Campanini, Luigi Tesio, Claudia Mazzà, Aurelio Cappozzo, Silvia Fantozzi, Isabella Visintin, Benedetti, Maria Grazia, Beghi, Ettore, De Tanti, Antonio, Cappozzo, Aurelio, Basaglia, Nino, Cutti, Andrea Giovanni, Cereatti, Andrea, Stagni, Rita, Verdini, Federica, Manca, Mario, Fantozzi, Silvia, Mazzã , Claudia, Camomilla, Valentina, Campanini, Isabella, Castagna, Anna, Cavazzuti, Lorenzo, Del Maestro, Martina, Croce, Ugo Della, Gasperi, Marco, Leo, Tommaso, Marchi, Pia, Petrarca, Maurizio, Piccinini, Luigi, Rabuffetti, Marco, Ravaschio, Andrea, Sawacha, Zimi, Spolaor, Fabiola, Tesio, Luigi, Vannozzi, Giuseppe, Visintin, Isabella, and Ferrarin, Maurizio
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030506 rehabilitation ,Kinematics ,Operations research ,Process (engineering) ,Gait analysi ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Biophysics ,Context (language use) ,Amputation ,Amputee ,Brain injuries ,Cerebral pulsy ,Clinics ,Consensus conference ,EMG ,Force plate ,Gait analysis ,Human movement ,Stereophotogrammetry ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,Rehabilitation ,Brain injurie ,Scientific evidence ,NO ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Gait (human) ,Jury ,Humans ,Medicine ,Quality (business) ,Gait ,Biomechanical Phenomena ,Italy ,Movement Disorders ,Practice Guidelines as Topic ,Clinic ,media_common ,Medical education ,business.industry ,Kinematic ,Work (electrical) ,Biophysic ,Position paper ,0305 other medical science ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Gait analysis is recognized as a useful assessment tool in the field of human movement research. However, doubts remain on its real effectiveness as a clinical tool, i.e. on its capability to change the diagnostic-therapeutic practice. In particular, the conditions in which evidence of a favorable cost-benefit ratio is found and the methodology for properly conducting and interpreting the exam are not identified clearly. To provide guidelines for the use of Gait Analysis in the context of rehabilitation medicine, SIAMOC (the Italian Society of Clinical Movement Analysis) promoted a National Consensus Conference which was held in Bologna on September 14th, 2013. The resulting recommendations were the result of a three-stage process entailing i) the preparation of working documents on specific open issues, ii) the holding of the consensus meeting, and iii) the drafting of consensus statements by an external Jury. The statements were formulated based on scientific evidence or expertsâ opinion, when the quality/quantity of the relevant literature was deemed insufficient. The aim of this work is to disseminate the consensus statements. These are divided into 13 questions grouped in three areas of interest: 1) General requirements and management, 2) Methodological and instrumental issues, and 3) Scientific evidence and clinical appropriateness. SIAMOC hopes that this document will contribute to improve clinical practice and help promoting further research in the field.
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- 2017