CGA Normative Gait Database

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.                                                                                          Douglas Adams
 
This normative data was collected and kindly donated by CGA subscribers.You are welcome to download and use it in comparing your own data. Please acknowledge the source in any publications. You are also welcome to submit your own results for inclusion in the database. All subjects (ages, sexes, walking speeds, types of motion analysis equipment, file formats) are gratefully accepted, but please include this information with the data. Send your data to:
Dr.ChrisKirtley MD PhD, owner of the Clinical Gait Analysis email list

Click on the links to download the appropriate files... 
 
Source
Subjects & Data files
Age(s) &


Images

Leg Length (Height)(cm)
Mass


(kg)

Speed


(m/s)

Equipment
Model &


File format

Notes
Normal 3D kinematics and kinetics from MAC system by Andreas KranzlVienna.


kinetics

MAC ExpertVisionOrthotrak software
JPG images
Kinetics graphs shows major propulsive power bursts (by Chris Kirtley)
Normalised regressions of kinematics & kinetics for children (from data of Ben Stansfield). 
7 to 12 year old
Vicon
Excel sheet
Data from Stansfield BW, Hazlewood Excel sheet by Dr. Chris Kirtley
Normalised Temporal-Spatial parameters by At HofUniversity of Groningen (from data of Sutherland)


Hof.xls

1-7 yr 


Adults

32 - 100
0.63-1.45
Normalisation to dimensionless units - explained here
ShrinersHospitalGait Dimensions


Nomograms  (sent by Larry Lamoreux - from originals by Frank Todd

Normal Children


Boys2.gif
Boys3.gif
Girls1.gif
Girls2.gif
Girls3.gif

Ht. 90-190
0-2.6
Stopwatch
How to use the gait graphs: 


Info1.gif
Info2.gif

22 adults: 


allmeas.txt
fdata.txt
allmeas.mat
fdata.mat
ddata.txt
MATLAB code:
fitplot.m
plotmusc.m
winterfig.m
newlim.mat
plotlimgem.m

21.9±1.5 yr
98.4±3.9 (184.7 ±0.49)
75.3±7.8
0.75, 1, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75
SPA-12 preamps, K-Lab amp (Enschede)
bandpass 20Hz-10kHz, 25Hz lowpass


README

Gait & Posture paper
Zip archive


Yonsei University 
S. Korea


5 m,2f
13 m,9f
12 m,8f
4 m,6f
1 m,4f
82


29.6±3.9
41.8±3.9
53.7±3.6
65.1±3.4
74.2±2.9
Adult

36±1.2 


42.3±3.7 
46.5±2.1 
49.8±2.3 
52.9±2.6 
57.4±2.8 
83.0±5.1

11.5±1.2 
13.5±4.7 
15.6±2.2 
16.9±2.3 
17.0±3.1 
21.6±2.2
0.86±0.2 


0.83±0.1 
0.89±0.1 
0.97±0.2 
0.91±0.1 
1.07±0.2 
1.19±0.1

Vicon 370 


version 2.5 
(joint 
kinematics 
only in 3 youngest data sets)

Vicon 


Clinical 
Manager 
(VCM, 
marker 
set, .GCD 
files)

Copyright statement


AACD, Brazil
www.aacd.org.br


 

44 children

4 to 8 y 


(mean 5y 9mo) 

>8 to 16 y 
(mean 10y 8mo)

N/S
N/S
1.016 
 

1.135

Vicon 370 


version 2.5 (joint kinematics only)

VCM, Excel 5.0 workbooks containing original .GCD data & plots
Column 1 is mean, column 2 is


standard deviation.

Dr. Richard BakerMusgraveParkHospitalBelfastN. Ireland
N/S
N/S
1.45±0.22
6 camera Vicon 370 


version 2.5 (joint kinematics only)

VCM, using mirror for thigh markers, no KAD, .GCD files
CVs
(Excel 5.0)



DundeeScotland


(25 trials) 
.GCD file

Excel file with CVs

N/S
N/S
1.31±0.11


system (joint kinematics only)


Method in Gait & Posture (1997) 6:263


Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.


10 Young
10 Older
20 All
each repeated in 2 sessions.


Older(45-55y): 
kinem,kinetics
All(both): 
kinemkinetics

N/S
N/S


version 2.5


.GCD files


Reliability data: 
CVs
ICCs

N/S
N/S
N/S
N/S
Ralf Mikut,
Gait lab,
Orthopädische
Universitätsklinik
Heidelberg
Germany
22 children (includes joint angular velocities) 8.3 ± 1.8 y       Vicon Modified Helen Hayes Automated feature assessment in instrumented gait analysis. Gait & Posture (2006) 23 (3): 331-338

N/S = Not Supplied; Leg length is from ASIS to medial malleolus (skeletal length if knee flexed).
You can use MLSviewer from Motion Lab Systems to view GCD and C3D files 


Bibliography of Normative Data and Reliability

Kadaba M, Ramakrishnan H, Wootten  M, Gainey J, Gorton  G, Cochran G (1989). Repeatability of kinematic, kinetic, and electromyographic data in normal adult gait. J. Orthopaed. Res. 7(6):849-860. 
Growney E., Meglan D., Johnson M., Cahalan T., An K. (1997) Repeated measures of adult normal walking using a video tracking system, Gait & Posture 6 (2):147-162. 

Gorton G, Hebert D, Goode B (2001). Assessment of the kinematic variability between 12 Shriner’s motion analysis laboratories. Gait and Posture 13(3):247. 

Gorton G, Hebert D, Goode B (2001). Assessment of the kinematic variability between 12 Shriner’s motion analysis laboratories. Part 2: Short term follow-up. Gait and Posture 16(S1):S65-6. 

Grimshaw P.N., Marques-Bruna P., Salo A., Messenger N (1998) The 3-dimensional kinematics of the walking gait cycle of children aged between 10 and 24 months: cross sectional and repeated measures, Gait & Posture 7 (1) pp. 7-15. 

MacWilliams B, Cowley M and Nicholson D (2003) Foot kinematics and kinetics during adolescent gait. Gait and Posture 17: 214-224. 

Wooton ME, Kadaba MP, Cochran GVB (1990) Dynamic electromyography II.Normal patterns during gait.Orthop. Res. 8(2): 259-65.

Hof AL, Elzinga H, Grimmius W, Halbertsma JPK (2002) Speed dependence of averaged EMG profiles in walking, Gait & Posture 16(1) :78-86 

Winter DA (1991) The biomechanics and motor control of human gait: normal, elderly and pathological.University of WaterlooPressOntarioCanada

Sadeghi H, Allard P,Duhaime M (2000) Contributions of Lower-Limb Muscle Power in Gait of People Without Impairments. Phys.Ther. 80(12): 1188 –1196 

Stansfield BW, Hillman SJ, Hazlewood ME, Lawson AM, Mann AM. Loudon IR, Robb JE (2001) Sagittal Joint Kinematics, Moments, and Powers Are Predominantly Characterized by Speed of Progression, Not Age J Paed Orth 21:403-411. 


Stansfield
BW, Hillman SJ, Hazlewood ME, Regression analysis of gait parameters with speed in normal children walking at self-selected speeds. Gait & Posture (2006) 23(3): 288-94.



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