The use of a detailed video-based locomotor pattern analysis system to assess the functional reinnervation of denervated hind limb muscles

•A new kineSmatic analysis has been established to test rodent hind limb parameters.•The new technique provides detailed gait parameters.•Data correction is taken into consideration to correlate data with the growth of the animals.•Motoneuron regeneration induced by riluzole treatment can be graded based upon the dose of riluzole.•Morphological and functional reinnervation is paralelled within the neuromuscular system.