Preliminary study: Gender comparison in walking gait analysis on anatomical planes for children

Abstract

As a part of on-going research gait studies among children, this paper presents a preliminary study on kinematic parameters of walking gait among children. In this study, angles of hip, knee, ankle and pelvic will be collected at Human Motion and Gait Analysis Laboratory, UiTM Shah Alam. There are 16 healthy children consists of 10 boys and 6 girls aged between 6 to 12 years old participated in this study. Each parameter will be analyzed to investigate the differences of walking gait in children for both genders. This study will be focused on the kinematic parameters at anatomical plane, which are sagittal, frontal and transverse planes. From the result, the differences walking gait pattern occurred generally at frontal plane at angle of hip, ankle and pelvic and at transverse plane differences occurred generally at angle of hip.