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Twelve AS patients and twelve healthy controls were enrolled in this study. An instrumented gait analysis of both groups was performed using pedobarography and Microsoft Kinect v2. The AS group was significantly older than the controls (p &lt; 0.05). The AS group showed a significantly lower relative pressure distribution in the front-right quadrant (p = 0.01) and a significantly higher relative pressure distribution in the rear-right quadrant (p = 0.05) on the static pedobarography. The AS group also had a higher peak force in the midfoot on the dynamic pedobarography (p &lt; 0.05). The AS group had a significantly shorter stride length (p = 0.01). No significant differences between the groups were found in their hip flexion\/extension and adduction\/abduction, knee flexion, or ankle dorsiflexion\/plantarflexion angles. This study shows significant alterations in the pedobarographic and spatiotemporal, but not in the kinematic, gait parameters of AS patients. 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