In 1995, the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsored a workshop entitled “Gait Analysis in Rehabilitation Medicine”. The purpose of the workshop was to develop and prioritize a set of recommendations pertaining to the role of gait analysis in enhancing the function of people with locomotor disabilities. The results of the workshop were 37 prioritized recommendations. Professional organizations and societies were charged with the responsibility of further synthesizing the workshop products. Government agencies, industry, and professional organizations were challenged to work cooperatively towards achieving advancements for the future use of gait analysis in rehabilitation medicine. In the decade since the NCMRR workshop, there have not been any reports of systematic attempts to assess or redefine research priorities in the gait analysis community. Since the workshop, the field of gait and motion analysis has continued to mature. The GCMAS Research Committee decided that a reassessment of priorities was necessary. The purpose of the project was to reassess and redefine a priority list for investigations of gait and clinical movement analysis.
