A computer based vertical force monitoring and analysis system for gait evaluation

Measurement of vertical force in gait assessment of injured persons is a method for objective control of the recovery rate during the rehabilitation process. We describe our computer based system for continuous monitoring and analysis of vertical forces. The system uses the original multisegmented capacitive transducers for force measurement and originally developed software CAS for real-time monitoring and post-processing. The software performance and some methods of vertical force signal processing in time and frequency domain are discussed. The feasibility of the system for further clinical use is proved.