How do you ensure that staff going on maternity or paternity leave do not get deskilled during their period away from gait analysis?

Here’s an idea to provide a regular knowledge update. The Verne mobile consists of  6 fully articulated Verne‘s allowing the user to set them in any desired pose. They are arranged in a circle to reinforce the importance of cyclic movement patterns. Comes complete with a customised worksheet* of cyclic gait patterns for the user to re-create. Choose three from the following list to suit any laboratory or clinic:

• normal walking at a range of different speeds (based on Schwartz et al. 2008, see video above)

• stair ascent and descent (Andriacchi, 1980)
• backward walking (on land, Grasso et al., 1988 and in water, Cadenas-Sánchez, et al., 2016)
• with empty and full bladder (females only, Booth et al. 2012)
• through pregnancy and after (Branco et al. 2016)

• running and sprinting (Novacheck 1998, see video below)
• running on treadmill and overground (Rozumalski et al., 2015)

• diplegic CP gait (mild, true equinus, jump knee, apparent equinus and crouch, Rodda et al., 2004),
• hemiplegic CP gait (Groups I, II, III and IV, Winters et al., 1987)

• amputee gait  (trans-tibial, Winter and Sienko, 1988, and trans-femoral, Segal et al., 2006)

Made in attractive colours to blend in with the decor of any nursery.

Congratulations Julie on the birth of William

* it doesn’t really – this bit’s a joke – but I was fascinated at the wide variety of gait patterns that we now have some form of kinematic data for (the mobile is real though!).