Running Gait Analysis
Detailed biomechanical assessment to optimise your running technique and reduce injury risk
What is Gait Analysis?
Running gait analysis involves detailed assessment of your running technique, including joint mechanics, loading patterns, cadence, stride characteristics, and movement symmetry. Using video and clinical observation, we identify inefficiencies and excessive stress that can limit performance or contribute to injury.
Why Gait Analysis Matters
Understanding how you run is critical for improving running economy, reducing unnecessary energy loss, and managing tissue load. Small technical faults can significantly increase stress through the calf, Achilles, knee, hip, or lower back when repeated over thousands of steps. Gait analysis allows targeted interventions such as technique cues, strength and mobility work, cadence modification, and footwear guidance to improve performance while reducing injury risk.
Common Injuries Linked to Gait Mechanics
Achilles Tendinopathy
Often associated with a forefoot-dominant strike, excessive ankle plantarflexion at contact, reduced ankle stiffness, or rapid increases in cadence or hill work that elevate calf–Achilles loading.
Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome (Shin Splints)
Commonly linked to excessive foot pronation velocity, poor control of tibial rotation, and increased braking forces, particularly in runners with low cadence or overstriding patterns.
Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
Frequently influenced by overstriding, low cadence, excessive knee flexion moments, and increased hip adduction or internal rotation during stance.
Iliotibial Band Syndrome
Associated with crossover gait patterns, narrow step width, excessive pelvic drop, and increased hip adduction leading to elevated lateral knee loading.
Plantar Fasciopathy
Linked to prolonged mid-stance pronation, reduced arch stiffness, limited ankle dorsiflexion, and delayed heel lift, increasing tensile load through the plantar fascia.
Hamstring Tendinopathy
Often influenced by excessive overstriding, aggressive heel striking, increased anterior pelvic tilt, and high braking forces that increase terminal swing and early stance hamstring load.
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