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GaitSmart – Essex, a service arm of GaitSmart are pleased to announce the beginning of a working partnership with Concord Rangers FC, from Canvey Island in Essex. Concord Rangers will have the opportunity to benefit from the ground-breaking technology in the area of gait and functional movement analysis that GaitSmart brings to the sporting arena. GaitSmart will be used to analyse all the players at Concord to provide baseline profiles of exactly how they move when healthy. G

Had an excellent meeting at Nuffield Healthcare Hospital, Exeter this week, demonstrating the speed and versatility of GaitSmart to measure gait and functional tests. This follows on from the successful Open day we ran there in February.

Dr. Diana Hodgins of GaitSmart was delighted to get the opportunity to present her work on ‘Early detection of knee OA’ and ‘How gait is affected by joint replacement’ at the conference last week. These stimulated considerable interest and it is anticipated it will lead to new groups across the world looking at how they may improve outcomes following joint replacement by understanding what exactly is wrong in the gait cycle. In addition, Diana was delighted that Yelena Walte

GaitSmart’s Dr. Diana Hodgins was on the organising Committe and is a key note speaker. Knee Osteoarthritus – Early Detection. Keynote Speech – How gait is affected by joint replacement.

We had a good presentation session with a delegation from the Jiangsu Provincial Hospital in China. The session was arranged by Essex International and the location was the Sports Centre at Writtle College. Writtle College already has two GaitSmart systems, one for their equine students and one for their human students. Dr. Gregory Deacon at Writtle College volunteered to be our patient for the session. The Chinese delegation were impressed by the speed and ease of use of the

On Thursday we attended the Human Motion Analysis for Healthcare Applications conference at the IET in London and presented our paper entitled “Gait monitoring using inertial measurement units in an orthopaedic outpatient clinic”.

GaitSmart feedback from all patients is exceptional. GaitSmart empowers the patient and will ensure a good recovery of mobility. GaitSmart is quick, easy and non-invasive. Check out a patient's thoughts further down. There is a study underway at the moment with evidence that only 40% (approx.) of patients recover a good gait post hip replacement. The consultant's work is finished if the operation is complete and there is no infection. An NHS physio has restrictions with regar

GaitSmart is delighted to announce our first customer in China, Peking University Third Hospital in Beijing. The system will be used for research and we are looking forward to new research publications from this prestigious hospital.

Had two good days at Charlton Athletic this week. We analysed the Academy U18’s on Tuesday and then the U21’s today. We are back next week to analyse the 1st team. In 5 minutes we can analyse a player and provide a detailed report on exactly how they move as well as movement, strength and stability when performing functional exercises. This means that the club now has a profile for the player. If the player suffers an injury in the future, we can analyse them, compare them to

Nick Ward, the Elite Performance Manager at Sheffield Eagles Rugby League Football Club, contacted us through LinkedIn and asked if they could be included in our knee angle study amongst professional athletes. So, on Wednesday this week, we visited the Sheffield Eagles to analyse the squad so that we can add their data into our knee angle study and to provide them with accurate gait and functional movement data on all players. We analysed all of the available squad members a