For Runners

We are the Specialized Running Clinic in VANCOUVER.

A Running Assessment is the examination of your running or walking pattern, also referred to as a gait analysis. During a Running Assessment, a physiotherapist will look for any biomechanical faults that may be contributing to your injury or area of concern. If you are training for a marathon or just picking up running, a Running Assessment can help reduce your risk of injury and accomplish your running goals. Video analysis is done using slow-motion capture. You also have the option to an add-on feature by extending your physiotherapy appointment by 15 minutes, getting further objective insights from RUNEASI, an artificial intelligence software.

For more information on RUNEASI: https://runeasi.ai/ , https://runlabphysiotherapy.com/

RUNEASI is an artificial intelligence software developed in Belgium that can give us further objective insights on your running or walking pattern. RUNEASI allows us to generate a Running Quality score that can help us gauge your baseline running quality and can sometimes help us catch nuances that the naked eye might have missed. RUNEASI looks at several parameters that have been studied to have the potential to contribute to running injuries. They are Dynamic Instability, Impact Magnitude/Impact Duration, Ground Contact Time, Cadence and Overall Symmetry between Left and Right. Both the slow-motion video gait analysis and RUNEASI data allow us to prevent injuries by catching them early or help us work together to more concretely draw out a treatment plan.

At Form Physiotherapy, one of our trained physiotherapists will have you complete a short run or walk on a treadmill to assess your walking or running pattern, while also looking at your posture, range of motion, strength, and neuromuscular control. Upon the completion of the assessment you can expect guidance around terrain, shoes, training volume (if necessary), an evidence guided treatment plan, and home exercises to progress treatment. After the video analysis and/or the RUNEASI gait analysis, the relevant data can be shared to you and/or uploaded onto your patient file.