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In some instances, a foot may be in contact with more than one force plate simultaneously; for example, the heel may land on the far side of one plate and then the toes roll onto the near edge of the subsequent plate.
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Dynamic Plug-in Gait includes an Advanced option to permit calculations based on these cross-plate strikes.
Reactions from the two plates are combined during processing, with the plate that is struck first being considered the primary. The forces reported by each plate are added together; the moments are also combined by referring the moment from the secondary plate back to the origin of the primary plate. In effect, the two plates are treated as a single force plate with the same origin as the primary plate.
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You may also set the foot strike manually (see Add events to trials and also Automatically assess foot strikes).
Note that the existing restriction that there must be only a single foot in contact with any given force plate still applies.
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