GAIT AND PRESSURE ANALYSIS TESTS
The Footmaxx system provides a dynamic, weight-bearing patient assessment and enables digital patient data to be transmitted via modem to the Footmaxx laboratory where it is analyzed by the proprietary diagnostic software Metascan™.
Metascan generates a gait and pressure analysis report containing 2D and 3D color images of a patient's footstep; data on kinetic pressure patterns during the stance phase of gait, and a conclusion describing and biomechanical abnormality detected as compared
to normal gait values. If an aberrant biomechanical pattern is detected, Metascan also specifies the prescription for custom foot orthotics.
The eight key foot landmarks [lateral heel, medial heel, 5 metatarsals and the hallux] are accurately isolated and tracked throughout the stance phase of gait. The gait and pressure analysis report is useful as a permanent chart record and can be submitted
to insurance and managed care companies to facilitate pre-determination requirements. Metascan now makes a scientific, accurate, biomechanical patient assessment affordable using the Footmaxx System.
The Metascan 8 point graph shows pressure amplitude in the vertical axis and time in the horizontal axis. The graph of pressure over time enables the clinician to
clearly see the increase and decrease of the vertical load forces in the critical segments of the foot. Tracking pressure over time allows the clinician to determine how
these segments of the foot are functioning in the contact, midstance and propulsive phases of the stance phase of gait. This information is invaluable for
understanding the biomechanics of the foot and ankle patient, many musculoskeletal patients and, as well, for the prevention and treatment of plantar ulcers in the
diabetic foot.
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