Walking boot design: A gait analysis study

This study investigated the effect of various short-leg walking boot design s on walking. Four commercially available walking boots and a synthetic wal king cast were tested using three-dimensional gait analysis to determine th eir effect on a normal individual's gait pattern. Temporal-spatial paramete rs and lower limb kinematics and kinetics were analyzed for 10 normal subje cts. The synthetic walking cast was the most different when compared with t he shoe condition with respect to the all parameters tested. The Bledsoe wa lking boot was the only boot that was not significantly different from the shoe condition for all parameters tested.