Improve Your Running in 2022 With a Gait Analysis From ATI
Just because winter is here doesn’t mean it is time to take a break from your exercise routine. Embrace the new year by embracing a new you! As you move away from paths and onto treadmills, now is a perfect time to take a look at your running gait and how it can be improved.
There are a variety of common injuries that can plague a runner during their training, including stress fractures, strains, and sprains. As in any sport, improving your technique (and, in this case, your gait) can help runners perform better and prevent injuries.
Our Wheaton, IL location can assess and correct your gait form and body’s biomechanics, offering you much-needed relief. In offering the most precise gait observation, our analysis examines two views of available motion and control, allowing our specialists to identify issues and recommend exercises to address these irregularities.
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What Is Running Gait? Okay, we’ll back up here a little bit. For those who aren’t seasoned runners (much fewer medal contenders at the highest levels of competition), your “gait” is simply the movement of your limbs. In this case, runners must pay special attention to their gait. For example, if a runner begins to pronate (turning the heel inward and therefore flattening out the arch), they could be susceptible to a slew of issues, from shin splints to tendonitis .
How Gait Analysis Works After taping someone running, a trained video gait analyst can review a runner’s form and help find ways to improve their gait and reduce their risk for injury.
Who Can Benefit From Gait Analysis Runners are the primary audience for the analysis, but it’s also helpful for those with ACL reconstruction or any lower extremity surgery to help reteach them how to properly run after surgery.
What Running Gait Analysis Can Help Identify
- Muscle weakness
- Muscle tightness
- Imbalances
- Compensations
- Proper shoe wear
- How to improve speed, performance, efficiency
Following your Video Gait analysis session, you will receive a comprehensive report that includes individualized comments and images as well as suggestions and exercises to help increase gait efficiency, improve running, walking performance, and form.
