Baker Richard
Hugh Williamson Gait Analysis Service, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Gait Posture. 2007 Sep;26(3):331-42. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2006.10.014. Epub 2007 Feb 15.
Aristotle (384-322 BCE) can be attributed with the earliest recorded comments regarding the manner in which humans walk. It was not until the renaissance that further progress was made through the experiments and theorising of Giovanni Borelli (1608-1679). Although several scientists wrote about walking through the enlightenment period it was the brothers Willhelm (1804-1891) and Eduard (1806-1871) Weber, working in Leipzig who made the next major contribution based on very simple measurements. Both Jules Etienne Marey (1830-1904), working in France, and Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), working in America, made significant advances in measurement technology. These were developed further by Otto Fischer (1861-1917) in collaboration with Willhelm Braune (1831-1892). The major developments in the early twentieth century were in the development of force plates and the understanding of kinetics. The team headed by Verne Inman (1905-1980) and Howard Eberhart (1906-1993) made major advances in America shortly after the Second War. David Sutherland (1923-2006) and Jacquelin Perry pioneered clinical applications in America and Jurg Baumann (1926-2000) in Europe. It was not until the advent of modern computers that clinical gait analysis became widely available.
亚里士多德（公元前384 - 322年）被认为是最早记录关于人类行走方式评论的人。直到文艺复兴时期，乔瓦尼·博雷利（1608 - 1679年）通过实验和理论研究才取得了进一步进展。尽管在启蒙运动时期有几位科学家撰写了关于行走的内容，但在莱比锡工作的威廉（1804 - 1891年）和爱德华·韦伯（1806 - 1871年）兄弟基于非常简单的测量做出了下一个重大贡献。在法国工作的朱尔斯·艾蒂安·马雷（1830 - 1904年）和在美国工作的伊德韦尔德·迈布里奇（1830 - 1904年）在测量技术方面都取得了重大进展。奥托·菲舍尔（1861 - 1917年）与威廉·布劳恩（1831 - 1892年）合作进一步发展了这些技术。20世纪初的主要进展在于测力板的发展和对动力学的理解。第二次世界大战后不久，由弗恩·英曼（1905 - 1980年）和霍华德·埃伯哈特（1906 - 1993年）领导的团队在美国取得了重大进展。大卫·萨瑟兰（1923 - 2006年）和杰奎琳·佩里在美国开创了临床应用，于尔格·鲍曼（1926 - 2000年）在欧洲开创了临床应用。直到现代计算机出现，临床步态分析才得以广泛应用。
