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The design of a new and feasible tool that allows us to control and improve the accuracy of loads exerted on crutches during aided gait is necessary, so as to unburden the lower limbs. In this paper, we describe such a system based on a force sensor, which we have named the GCH System 2.0. Furthermore, we determine the validity and reliability of measurements obtained using this tool via a comparison with the validated AMTI (Advanced Mechanical Technology, Inc., Watertown, MA, USA) OR6-7-2000 Platform. An intra-class correlation coefficient demonstrated excellent agreement between the AMTI Platform and the GCH System. A regression line to determine the predictive ability of the GCH system towards the AMTI Platform was found, which obtained a precision of 99.3%. A detailed statistical analysis is presented for all the measurements and also segregated for several requested loads on the crutches (10%, 25% and 50% of body weight). Our results show that our system, designed for assessing loads exerted by patients on forearm crutches during assisted gait, provides valid and reliable measurements of loads.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s16060925","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,6,23]],"date-time":"2016-06-23T00:43:08Z","timestamp":1466642588000},"page":"925","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["A Compact Forearm Crutch Based on Force Sensors for Aided Gait: Reliability and Validity"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Gema","family":"Chamorro-Moriana","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physiotherapy, University of Seville, Sevilla 41009, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1392-1832","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jos\u00e9","family":"Sevillano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Technology and Architecture, University of Seville, Sevilla 41012, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Carmen","family":"Ridao-Fern\u00e1ndez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physiotherapy, University of Seville, Sevilla 41009, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,6,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Van Kammen, K., Boonstra, A., Reinders-Messelink, H., and den Otter, R. 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