Reading the Way People Move: Low-Cost Gait & Balance Assessment

How a person walks — their stride timing, symmetry, sway, and stability — is one of the most informative and underused signals in medicine. Changes in gait and balance predict falls, track recovery, and surface neurological and musculoskeletal problems early. Yet the tools to measure them well have traditionally lived in specialist movement labs, far from the people who need screening most.

Falls are a leading cause of injury and lost independence, especially among older adults. Early, accessible assessment can change outcomes. Our goal is to make that assessment affordable enough to happen everywhere care does.

From specialist lab to everyday clinic

Vygux works to compress the capability of an expensive gait lab into a small, low-cost sensor setup that a clinician — or eventually a caregiver — can use with minimal training.

• Inertial sensors capture stride, cadence, symmetry, and postural sway
• On-device processing turns raw motion into interpretable scores
• A single workflow supports a one-time screen, a clinic follow-up, or at-home tracking

Designed around the realities of use

A tool that is technically accurate but awkward to use will not be used. So we co-design with clinicians and patients from the start:

• Comfortable to wear and quick to set up
• Clear, actionable output rather than raw graphs
• Resilient to the messiness of real environments

Validation before claims

We hold ourselves to evidence. Before any clinical claim, a method must demonstrate reliability, comfort, and workflow fit through structured testing.

1. Bench and reliability testing — does it measure consistently? 2. Usability studies — can real users run it correctly? 3. Clinical feedback — does the output change a decision? 4. Iterate — refine, then repeat.

The bigger picture

Accessible gait and balance assessment is preventive care in its most practical form: catching risk early, guiding rehabilitation, and helping people keep their independence.

Affordable measurement is the first step toward affordable prevention.

Frugal Solutions. Human Impact.