freeMed™ —Baropodometric Platforms —Static,Dynamic & Stabilometric Gait Analysis

The Sensor Medica freeMed™ is a family of professional baropodometric and stabilometric platforms for the comprehensive non-invasive evaluation of plantar support, gait, and posture. Consisting of thousands of latest-generation pressure sensors, the system allows for static, dynamic, stabilometric, and videographic measurements.

Four Analysis Modes — Complete Clinical Coverage

• Static Analysis — Plantar Pressure & Geometric Assessment :Static Foot Analysis Visualization of the footprint to analyze the pressure distribution, load distribution, contact surface, centre of pressure for each support and centre of body pressure. The static acquisition provides the foundational plantar assessment — a high-resolution pressure map of both feet simultaneously, with quantified parameters including contact area, peak pressure zones, forefoot/rearfoot load ratio, and mediolateral load distribution. 
• Geometric Static Analysis Analysis of the geometry of the support through parameters such as podalic angle, podalic axis, and misalignment of the body centre of pressure with respect to the geometric one. Podalic angle and axis deviations are important for orthopaedic assessment of in-toeing, out-toeing, and asymmetric stance patterns, and for correlating foot position with knee and hip pathology.
• Video Acquisition in Static Analysis Possibility to take several photos of the patient and apply measurements to the images, with free measurements and guided measurements through defined protocols. Integrated static video and photography.
• Static Automatic Report The software automatically draws up a report based on the data acquired from the platform. The report can be edited. The automatic report is generated immediately following assessment — no manual data entry, no report writing time. The report can be edited, personalised, and branded before delivery to the patient or referring clinician.

Stabilometric Analysis — Balance & Posturographic Assessment

• Posturographic Foot Analysis Preview of the various tests carried out by the patient for a global view of the entire stabilometric assessment session — providing an immediate overview of all stabilometric tests completed before drilling into individual test analysis. 
• Posturographic Oscillation Analysis In this section it is possible to analyse the patient's oscillations by evaluating the movements of the CoP and analysing the characteristic parameters of stabilometry such as the confidence ellipse, the length of the CoP and the Fourier analysis.

Dynamic Analysis — Gait & Walking Assessment : 

• Gait Line Analysis It is possible to evaluate the progress of the CoP throughout the foot support phase and establish any anomalies. The gait line — the trajectory of the centre of pressure from initial heel contact through midstance to terminal toe-off. freeMed's 400fps resolution enables precise gait line mapping at normal walking speeds, revealing deviations in rocker function, mediolateral CoP shifts, and abnormal pressure progression patterns associated with pathological gait. 
• Gait Cycle Analysis It is possible to evaluate the space-time parameters of walking by analysing the sequence of podalic support and evaluating any asymmetries. Space-time parameters measured include: step length (left and right), stride length, step width, cadence, walking speed, stance phase duration, swing phase duration, double support time, and left/right symmetry indices.
• Rocker Analysis In this section it is possible to analyse each individual support phase in detail and evaluate the differences between the right and left footprint. Rocker analysis breaks the stance phase into its three functional sub-phases — heel rocker, ankle rocker, and forefoot rocker — quantifying the timing, duration, and pressure characteristics of each sub-phase separately for the right and left foot.
• Video Capture in Dynamic Analysis Video of the patient performing the dynamic analysis synchronized with the graphical display of the steps on the platform. Synchronized video and pressure data playback is one of the most clinically powerful features of the freeMed/freeStep system — allowing the clinician to simultaneously see what the patient's body is doing and what the pressure platform is recording at any moment in the gait cycle. This synchronization is essential for correlating visible gait deviations (hip drop, trunk lean, knee hyperextension) with quantitative pressure findings, and for patient education and report communication.