step 1

Question 1

How do we determine if the patient can walk?

Answer 1

ask them to walk across the room

Question 2

What are we assessing with he patient walking?

Answer 2

look for altered Gait or unnatural movement
look to see if the patient is protecting an injury by walking one the ball of the foot

Question 3

what is normal gait

Answer 3

normal gait is the knee being fully extended at heel strike and flexed at all other phases of swing an stance