WHAT GAIT ANALYSIS CANNOT DO
- No particular gait pattern lowers risk on its own, so your gait analysis cannot eliminate your injury risk.
- Your gait analysis can only give you basic advice about your running on even ground, at a comfortable pace, early in your run. It cannot tell you what may be happening on hills, at critical speds, or at points in a race where you are fatigued or breaking down.
- Gait evaluations do not give much useful information if you are dealing with an injury that is currently affecting your ability to run normally.
- Gait analysis requires a physical examination of your strength, flexibility, balance, and core stability to give you complete information about what supplemental exercises you need.
- Your gait evaluation cannot compensate for the biases of your reviewer in the advice he or she gives you. Many healthcare providers have their own beliefs that may affect the information they give you.
- A gait evaluation can teach you how to improve your biomechanics, butthis is only a small part of becoming a faster runner. Strength, speed, and stamina come from consistent training with special workouts.
- A gait analysis on its own does not assess critical lifestyle factors like sleep, diet, and training patterns that can influence performance and injury prevention.
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