Measuring Running and Walking the Wearable Way

Gait Up is a Switzerland-based wearable technology company specializing in movement analysis, particularly gait, with a mission to prevent falls and injuries, improve treatments, and enhance physical performances.

Patients and athletes who strap on a pair of Gait Up’s shoe-worn Physilog wearable devices can have 25 different parameters measured regarding the way they walk and run under real-life conditions. Alternatively, the Physilog device can also be worn on the chest, to record and analyze a person’s activity during the day, including complex outcome parameters such as gait variability and cadence.

From Injury Recovery to Risk of Falling

Such refined data about human movement can be highly relevant to physicians and sports-experts when it comes to diagnosing and treating a number of diseases, disabilities or athletic performance issues. “We can use these measurements to objectively evaluate patient health. For example, we can see how a patient is recovering from an injury, make predictions about a patient’s risk of falling, or evaluate patients with Parkinson’s disease”, Alexander Russell, VP of Business Development at Gait Up, tells us.