Medical Student Research Forum Posters

It has been noted that tripping and falling are the greatest source of accidental injury in children with motor disabilities[1]. Tripping most commonly occurs due to a decrease in foot clearance or ineffective limb shortening during the swing phase of gait. Moosabhoy and Gard developed equations based on a planar model of the leg to look directly at joint contributions to foot clearance in the adult population (Fig. 1)[2]. We modified and applied the analytical techniques used by Moosabhoy and Gard to analyze a new population of patients.