Baropodographic measurements and averaging in locomotion and postural analysis

The use of quantitative baropodography measurements, either by means of pressure sensing foot insoles or floor mats, is quickly increasing in clinical and research fields for the analysis of a wide variety of foot and ankle disorders. In this paper we present a set of complex and detailed processing procedures necessary to correctly perform gait cycles normalisation and averaging as well as bivariate statistic for COP analysis, in order to extract quantitative and statistically significant parameters for clinical evaluation of locomotion and orthostatic posture.