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For almost 30 years, a world-leading gait analysis laboratory at The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne has helped children with cerebral palsy receive life-changing treatments.

When Professor Kerr Graham arrived in Australia to introduce gait analysis technology to help manage children with cerebral palsy, some medical professionals were sceptical. An accomplished orthopaedic surgeon who had trained in Ireland, London and Toronto, Professor Graham had witnessed firsthand the dramatic potential of gait analysis to improve the lives of children with cerebral palsy.

However, in Australia, gait analysis was only being used by the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra to help athletes perfect their performance. Professor Graham knew the technology had much to offer the approximate 2 in 1,000 Australian children born with cerebral palsy every year. He had seen it work and so, ignoring the sceptics, and with support from the Hugh Williamson Foundation and the Orthopaedic Department, he established Australia’s first clinical gait analysis laboratory at The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.