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Walk Test for Workers Comp Application

A Normal Person's Gaits

Traditional orthopedic physical assessment can be quite subjective in some cases. A person tries to fake injury can pretend to limp in front of the examiners while walk normally at home. Only a 24-7 continuous physiological and behavioral monitoring system could reveal the truth and provide the solid evidence about his functional capacity.
IDEEA device can record every second of a person's daily activity, 24-hr a day up to 7 days. Specialists can conduct detailed study to evaluate claimed impairments of lower extremities or other functional disabilities.
A predefined sit-stand & 200-m walk test has been designed to quickly and effectively test functional capacity. The test is devided into three periods: before, during, and after test. "Before test" is when the test suject walks to the testing field. "During test" is when the person walks 200-m in the testing field. "After test" is the period when the person walks back.
The following graphs show a normal person, a 21-year old student's gait curves. The first graph is part of his gait curves before the test. We can see his left leg (blue) and right leg (red) gait curves are well balanced.
workers comp: before test gaits, normal
The second graph is part of his gait curves during the test.
workers comp: during test gaits, normal
The above two graphs show that this person was walking consistently and normally.

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