歩行分析の現状とリハビリテーション医療における役割

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The instrumented gait analysis has been widely recognized by Japanesephysiatrists for years. However it has not been used in daily clinical practice for the treatment of gait disorders. There have been changes of the status in gait analysis such that significant advance of computer technology making the gait analysis easier to apply. This is the review of English written monograms in the last 10 years that appeared in Medline. Within 362 monograms, cerebral palsy was the disease that was most frequently needed the gait analysis for outcome measurement and pathophysiological investigations. It becomes evident that Botulinum type A toxin and selective dorsal rhizotomy are frequently applied for the treatment of spastic gait disorders of cerebral palsy in the U.S.A. Monograms presented in a web site of the Veterans Administration Affairs are introduced since they are reviewing the state of the art of the gait analysis nicely.
2001-05-18