Editing Gait analysis (section)

==History==
The pioneers of scientific gait analysis were [[Aristotle]] in ''De Motu Animalium'' (On the Gait of Animals)<ref>{{cite book
 | author = Aristotle
 | title = On the Gait of Animals
 | publisher = Kessinger Publishing | year = 2004
 | isbn = 978-1-4191-3867-6
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lZGxiHM2ldIC
}}</ref> and much later in 1680, [[Giovanni Alfonso Borelli]] also called ''De Motu Animalium (I et II)''. In the 1890s, the German anatomist [[Christian Wilhelm Braune]] and Otto Fischer published a series of papers on the biomechanics of human gait under loaded and unloaded conditions.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Fischer|first1=Otto|last2=Braune|first2=Wilhelm|year=1895|title=Der Gang des Menschen: Versuche am unbelasteten und belasteten Menschen, Band 1.|publisher=Hirzel Verlag|language=de}}</ref>
[[File:Medical and surgical therapy (1918) (14781804412).jpg|thumb|upright|Medical gait photography, 1918]]
With the development of photography and cinematography, it became possible to capture image sequences that reveal details of human and animal locomotion that were not noticeable by watching the movement with the naked eye. [[Eadweard Muybridge]] and [[Étienne-Jules Marey]] were pioneers of these developments in the early 1900s. For example, serial photography first revealed the detailed sequence of the horse "[[Horse gait#Gallop|gallop]]", which was usually misrepresented in paintings made prior to this discovery.

Although much early research was done using film cameras, the widespread application of gait analysis to humans with pathological conditions such as [[cerebral palsy]], [[Parkinson's disease]], and [[neuromuscular disease|neuromuscular disorder]]s, began in the 1970s with the availability of video camera systems that could produce detailed studies of individual patients within realistic cost and time constraints. The development of treatment regimes, often involving [[orthopedic surgery]], based on gait analysis results, advanced significantly in the 1980s. Many leading orthopedic hospitals worldwide now have gait labs that are routinely used to design treatment plans and for follow-up monitoring.{{cn|date=December 2021}}

Development of modern computer based systems occurred independently during the late 1970s and early 1980s in several hospital based research labs, some through collaborations with the aerospace industry.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Sutherland DH | year = 2002 | title = The evolution of clinical gait analysis: Part II Kinematics | journal = Gait & Posture | volume = 16 | issue = 2| pages = 159–179 | doi=10.1016/s0966-6362(02)00004-8| pmid = 12297257 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.626.9851 }}</ref> Commercial development soon followed with the emergence of commercial television and later infrared camera systems in the mid-1980s.