GAIT CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES EXTRACTION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES DIAGNOSTICS

This study was based on observations of 117 patients suffering from motor disturbances. Among them 42 cases with hemiparetic syndrome, majority of them after cerebral stroke, 52 cases affected by acute sciatic neuralgia and 23 patients with recognition of Parkinson - disease symptoms. To the control group 16 healthy adults were selected, from medical staff of clinics. All subjects were examined using pedobarographic equipment - Parotec System for Windows (PSW) [1]. Based on these observations several pattern solutions have been introduced. They concern gait disturbances descriptions in three distinguished neurological diseases. These findings extracted a new data from the PSW records and options with new diagnostic techniques, based on the gait characteristics observation.