For the people wearing them
Taking your record
to an appointment.
Your Stride One record is yours. If you want to show it to your surgeon, podiatrist or physiotherapist, here is what it contains and how to explain it in about a minute.
Bring the app, or share dashboard access beforehand. Tell them three things: it measures how weight is shared between your feet, how your foot rolls through each step, and where load sits across each foot — recorded continuously in your own shoes. It is a record of change over time, not a diagnostic test.
What the record actually is
Every day you wear the insoles, they record how load moves through both feet, step by step. That produces a continuous record rather than a snapshot: not twenty steps down a corridor at one appointment, but every step you took between appointments, in the shoes you actually wear, at the pace you actually walk.
For a clinician, that is the unfamiliar part. The measures themselves are ordinary gait parameters. What is new is the density and the setting.
The three numbers, in one sentence each
How weight is shared between the left and right foot — in force, and in how long each foot spends on the ground. Scaled so the more loaded foot that day reads 100 and the other reads as a percentage of it.
How cleanly the foot moves from heel contact, through midfoot, to push-off, scored 0–100 and broken into those three parts. The worst third of the day’s steps are discarded before averaging, because those are usually shuffling rather than walking.
How load is distributed across ten zones of each foot. Each zone is shaded relative to the other nine zones on the same foot — so it shows where pressure concentrates and how that shifts, not a calibrated absolute value.
The Stride One Score is a single daily figure built from those three. If someone wants the full arithmetic — how trend arrows are calculated, how the seven-day pressure history is built, how the loading distributions work — it is all written out on reading your data, and you can send them that link.
Three things worth saying out loud
These are the questions a careful clinician will ask, and it saves time if you answer them first.
- “It is relative, not calibrated.” The pressure maps compare zones on the same foot with each other. Stride One does not measure absolute pressure in kilopascals and should not be read against clinical pressure thresholds.
- “It does not measure walking speed or step length.” Nor stride length, step width, or skin temperature. A lot of gait literature is built on those, so it matters that they are not in here.
- “It does not tell me anything — it just records.” There is no alert, no threshold, no advice, no cue while walking. It shows you what happened and leaves the interpretation where it belongs.
What it is not
Stride One is a monitoring device. It records and displays gait and plantar-load parameters. It does not diagnose anything, detect or predict any condition, or recommend treatment. It is not CE-marked as a medical device and is not FDA-cleared. It does not replace an appointment, an examination, imaging, or your clinician’s judgement.
If your clinician concludes that the data is not useful to them, that is a reasonable position and not one we would argue with. The record exists for you.
Sharing it
Nothing leaves your account unless you send it. Stride One does not transmit your data to any clinician, clinic or insurer on its own, and there is no clinician who sees your record by default. You choose who gets access and you can withdraw it.
Two practical routes: open the app at the appointment and show it on your phone, or share dashboard access ahead of time so they can look before you arrive. What is kept, for how long, and how to delete it is set out in the device privacy statement and the privacy policy.
If they want the evidence behind it
Some clinicians will want to know why these particular measures are worth recording. The write-ups are public and sourced — nothing is gated and there is no form to fill in:
- Why step count does not show whether someone has recovered — gait-quality recovery after total knee replacement, n = 686.
- How well weight-bearing instructions are actually followed — three instrumented studies.
- What each index measures, including the full list of what is not measured.
- All six evidence pages.
Not wearing them yet?
Stride One is a pair of sensor insoles that record how you load and roll through your feet, every day, in the shoes you already wear.
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