Enhancing the ability of gait analyses to differentiate between groups: scaling gait data to body size

One goal of gait analysis is to distinguish clearly between a set of abnormal gait values measured from a patient referenced to a comparable population. However, the comparable population is often composed of individuals of various heights and weights, which increases inter-subject gait value variation which reduces the ability of a statistical test to identify a set of gait data outcomes with evaluative properties. Therefore, scaling gait …