Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Center of Ioannina

Foot Switches from NORAXON that provide the capability to measure foot-strike patterns during human walking or running. Real-time foot-strike data is provided by this system, which includes four switches per foot. The system is comprised of a belt-worn amplifier and cables with plugable sensors for eight locations. Also supplied is a tether cable (twenty feet in length) to attach to any data acquisition hardware. The accurate analysis of kinematic data demands the detection of the phases of the gait cycle. This is achieved with real-time recording of the participant during measurements from a digital camera, as well as with the use of the foot switches.