Clinical gait analysis: a gender medicine perspective

Gait measurements are conducted in highly specialized human motion laboratories to monitor different kinds of locomotion pathologies. A data-driven, personalized approach to medicine requires that clinical gait analysis is conducted taking into account the sex/gender of the subject(s) under investigation. The aim of this contribution is to increase the awareness about the importance of a gender perspective in clinical gait analysis. An example is provided to explain why a clinical gait dataset from chronic low-back pain patients should be re-analyzed through a gender lens.