Ten normal subjects and twenty-one patients severely involved with hip disease were used in this study in which the purpose was 1) to describe and compare floor reaction forces and 2) to compare temporal and distance factors of gait between patients and normal persons walking at two different rates. A force platform, footswitches, recorder, and walkway with grid were used to obtain the data. Cadence, velocity, and stride length for normals were generally twice that of the patients with hip disease while many of the results for temporal and distance factors and floor reaction forces were similar between the patients with hip disease and the normals who walked at a slow rate.