Gait Biomechanics

Improve walking through education, training and research

GAITway is a new initiative of the School of Health Sciences, driven by Professor Richard Baker, who became the world’s first Chair in Clinical Gait Analysis when he joined the University of Salford in 2010. Our vision is to become an international centre of excellence in the understanding and measurement of walking.

Around 10% of all adults experience some difficulties walking. We believe that many of these people can be enabled to walk more easily through a better understanding of how clinical interventions can improve walking and that this in turn must be based on a better understanding of why we walk the way we do and improved techniques for describing and measuring the way individuals walk (clinical gait analysis).

GAITway has three elements:

• Clinical Gait Analysis Service
• Research Programme
• Gait Analysis Courses

GAITway is also developing a library of downloadable resources which you can access here.