Gait training is designed to regain or improve your ability to be mobile. Your gait is your way of walking. Gait training is different for someone recovering from a musculoskeletal disorder than for someone who recently had a stroke. Gait training is used to improve mobility in those who have had hip/knee/ankle surgeries or injuries with immobilization periods. Gait training is also used for those who have neurological disorders, brain injuries, amputations, and lower extremity fractures or people just wanting to improve their running performance.
During gait training, bodyweight support systems and stabilizers can be used in conjunction with muscle and endurance building exercises to develop or retrain
muscle memory.

Benefits

• Strengthen your muscles and joints
• Improve your balance and posture
• Build your endurance
• Develop your muscle memory
• Retrain your legs for repetitive motion
• Lower your risk of falls, while increasing your mobility
• Progress away from assistive device use
  (walker, crutches, cane)
• Improve independence in daily activities

Conditions Treated

• Joint injuries
• Joint replacements
• ORIF of lower extremities
• Closed fractures of lower extremities
• Lower limb amputations
  (AKA, BKA, Symes, Partial foot, etc..)
• Ligament injuries in the knee and ankle
• Strokes or neurological disorders
• Spinal cord injuries
• Broken legs or pelvis
• Other musculoskeletal disorders
• Long distance runners
• Running sports requiring cutting and pivoting