What is the Movement Analysis Lab?
The Movement Analysis Laboratory helps the doctors and other clinicians at the hospital better understand how your child walks. The staff of the Movement Analysis Laboratory uses special measurement equipment to analyze the way that your child walks. The team that works in the Movement Analysis Laboratory is made up of an orthopaedic surgeon, a biomechanical engineer, a physical therapist, two kinesiologists and an electrical engineer. • What will happen during our visit to the Movement Analysis Laboratory? What will happen during our visit to the Movement Analysis Laboratory? First, your child will lie on an exam table and a clinician will move his or her legs to see how they bend. Then, small reflective balls will be placed on the body. Other sensors will be placed on the legs to tell us when the muscles are working. Then, your child will walk back and forth in the lab so that special cameras can take pictures of the reflective balls that he or she is wearing. Computers then analyze
