A telemetry system designed for use with a conductive walkway: description and validation

Abstract

We present a telemetry system developed for use with a conductive walkway. A transmitter, a receiver, a conductive walkway and a PC with the appropriate software form the entire system, which is used for the assessment of the temporal parameters of gait and the gait speed. The technique is easy to use in routine clinical practice, easily reproducible and commercially available for research laboratories with restricted financial support. The telemetry system was found to be sufficiently accurate and repeatable, and was validated with a group of 20 healthy male adults (mean age, 34 years). The present results are similar to those reported in the literature for an alike group of subjects.