The purposes of this study were to elicit experimental knowledge from physical therapist, to elucidate motion analysis points related to gait of knee injury’s patient, to classify them into categories, and to investigate any commonality among theme. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted to five physical therapists. Each interview was requested to comment about the gait of a knee injury’s patient, which videotaped beforehand. The comments were recorded, dictated literally and divided into segments on the basis of meaning unit. Based on the properties of the various meaning units, they were gathered and classified into categories. As a result, we classified them into seven categories. It was shown that we divided common categories of the portion of injury and the therapy's portion and different categories of others irrespective of years of experience in physical therapy. It is considered that it may be occurred variant therapeutic effect to the different of ability to analyze a motion on physical therapists respectively.
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