MANA 2.0 challenges gold-standard mat test for gait assessment

Gait analysis is used for medical diagnosis of sports injuries, neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and Cerebral Palsy, and for assessing frailty and fall risk of the elderly. To obtain accurate gait measurements, a gold-standard proprietary gait measuring mat is usually used in the clinics. The mat is aid to be large, heavy and expensive, and gait measurements using it can only be conducted in the clinic in the presence of a doctor.

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Now, researchers from the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a novel wireless sensor system capable of achieving clinical gait measurements with comparable accuracies to the current gold-standard mat. The MANA 2.0 wireless sensor system is made up of four sensors mounted onto the user’s footwear and can be linked to a mobile application where the measurements are taken.