Biomechanics Assessment
Looking Beyond Where It Hurts to Understand Why
Pain doesn't always start where you feel it.
Foot, ankle, knee and lower-limb pain can be influenced by many factors, including the way you move, your strength, mobility, footwear, activity levels and the demands you place on your body.
At Feet & Motion, our biomechanics assessments look at the whole picture.
We start by understanding your symptoms in context: how they affect your everyday life, work or sport, what you have already tried, and most importantly, what you want to get back to doing.
We then combine clinical assessment with movement analysis to understand the factors that may be contributing to your problem and develop an individual treatment plan.
Which Biomechanics Assessment Is Right for Me?
Biomechanics Assessment
Our Biomechanics Assessment is designed to investigate foot and lower-limb problems and understand how your individual biomechanics may be contributing to your symptoms.
What might my Biomechanics Assessment include?
- A detailed history to understand your symptoms, their impact on your life and the outcomes you want to achieve
- Visual and manual non-weight-bearing assessment
- Visual and manual weight-bearing assessment
- Functional movement assessment
- Footscan digital pressure analysis where clinically appropriate
- A clear explanation of our findings
- An individual treatment plan agreed with you
- Measurable goals and outcomes that allow us to assess your progress at review
Is the Biomechanics Assessment right for me?
- You have a new or relatively straightforward foot or lower-limb problem
- You would like to understand what may be contributing to your pain
- You need advice about footwear or orthotics
- You require a detailed clinical biomechanical assessment without the need for advanced 3D gait analysis
Advanced Biomechanics Assessment
Our Advanced Biomechanics Assessment combines everything included in our standard assessment with advanced 3D digital gait analysis and objective physical function testing, where appropriate.
What is advanced 3D gait analysis?
Where appropriate, quantifiable muscle strength testing provides further information about physical function, including differences in strength and symmetry between the two sides of the body.
Importantly, these measurements are objective and repeatable. This allows us to establish a baseline and, where appropriate, repeat measurements later to assess changes in movement, strength and function following treatment or rehabilitation.
Your digital results are interpreted alongside your history and clinical examination, giving us a comprehensive picture of how you move, how your body is functioning and how these factors may relate to your symptoms.
What might my Advanced Biomechanics Assessment include?
- A detailed history to understand your symptoms, how they affect you and what you would like to achieve
- Visual and manual non-weight-bearing assessment
- Visual and manual weight-bearing assessment
- Functional movement assessment
- Run3D / Walk3D 3D gait analysis, collecting objective data while you walk or run
- Footscan digital pressure analysis
- Objective muscle strength testing, where clinically appropriate
- Assessment of strength and symmetry, where clinically appropriate
What happens after my Advanced Biomechanics Assessment?
Unlike our standard Biomechanics Assessment, an Advanced Biomechanics Assessment takes place over two appointments.
Your first appointment focuses on your clinical assessment and the collection of your digital gait-analysis data.
Your clinician will then review and interpret your Run3D data and report alongside the findings from your clinical examination.
You will return for a review appointment, usually around 7–10 days later, when we will take you through your results, explain what they mean in clear language and agree an individual treatment plan with you.
Is the Advanced Biomechanics Assessment right for me?
- Your symptoms are persistent or recurrent
- Previous treatment hasn't resolved your problem
- You have a running or sports-related injury
- Your problem is more complex or involves several areas of the lower limb
- You want a detailed understanding of your walking or running biomechanics
- You value objective information about your movement, strength and symmetry
- You want measurable baseline data that can be repeated to objectively assess progress
Available from 19 October – book now
Compare Our Biomechanics Assessments
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Still Not Sure Which Assessment to Book?
If you’re unsure which level of assessment would be most appropriate, book a Discovery Call with one of our clinicians. We can briefly discuss your problem and help you decide which assessment best suits your needs.
What Happens After Your Assessment?
At the end of your assessment, we’ll explain our findings in clear language and agree an individual treatment plan with you.
Depending on what we find, this might include:
- Footwear advice
- Rehabilitation and exercise
- Activity or training modification
- Prefabricated or custom orthotics
- Shockwave therapy or Laser therapy
- Other appropriate treatment or referral
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Digital Gait Analysis
Learn more about the Footscan, Walk3D and Run3D technologies we use to objectively assess movement.
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Orthotics & Insoles
Learn more about when orthotics may help, the difference between prefabricated and custom devices, and our Phits® 3D-printed orthotics.
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