BSc (Hons) Podiatry

Podiatry clinic

Our podiatry clinic adds a cutting-edge to your training, as well as providing a valuable asset to the local community.

The clinic includes:

• Private cubicles
• Orthoses suite with workshops
• Gait examination room
• Seminar rooms
• Gait laboratory
• Anatomy room
• Clinical skills rooms

Clinical gait analysis and research facility

This laboratory was part of a £1.5 million renovation of the podiatry clinical education and research spaces. The laboratory hosts the Salford Gait Analysis Service which provides quantitative gait analysis and consultation services for four National Health Service Trusts in the Manchester area.

The service supports the care of children with cerebral palsy by enabling assessment of their gait to input to their care pathways. We also offer gait and human movement assessment related to amputees, neuromuscular disorders (such as stroke) and a range of orthopaedics disorders.

The equipment includes:

• 10 Qualisys OQUS motion analysis cameras
• Four AMTI force plates embedded into the floor
• Custom stairs that integrate with the force plates are available
• Visual 3D real-time analysis software
• Eight channel Noraxon Telemyo G2T wireless EMG system with associated foot switches and accelerometry
• Tekscan pressure system.

Human movement laboratory

This is the original gait laboratory within the University, and is located adjacent to the prosthetics and orthotics clinical suite and technical workshops.

This lab is used for research, clinical and educational work and has:

• 10 camera Vicon 612 motion analysis system
• Two Kistler force plates (embedded into the floor)
• Two Kistler force plates located in a purpose built portable walkway
• 12 Xsens inertial measuring units
• One eight-channel MIE telemetric electromyography system
• Visual 3D real-time analysis software
• ORLAU video vector generator.