abstract：:Classification of gait disorders would facilitate standardisation of gait management and communication across professional boundaries. In the past, such classification was undertaken using a variety of approaches with often unclear methodology and validation procedures. This study describes the application of hierarch...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Toro B,Nester CJ,Farren PC

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we propose a simple model to predict the effect of linear time normalization to reduce variability in human movement analysis. This model is based on analysis of the correlation between timing variables and total movement duration. We obtain a simple expression to predict the variation coefficient (CV) o...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Page A,Epifanio I

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stair descent is a challenging task in old age. This study firstly investigated lower extremity kinematics during stair descent in young (YOU) and healthy, community dwelling older adults (OLD). Secondly, the impact of an exercise training intervention on age-related differences in stair descent was assessed. At basel...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Mian OS,Thom JM,Narici MV,Baltzopoulos V

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is understood of the mechanisms of locomotion if human subjects are not moving in a straight path. The identification of contributory variables to curved motion would also underpin other non-linear actions such as cutting and turning. The performance of such tasks has relevance to both success in sports and exe...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Smith N,Dyson R,Hale T,Janaway L

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the swing phase of gait, the effective length of the leg-distance from the hip joint center to the toe-must be made shorter than the distance from the hip to the floor to avoid toe-stubbing or tripping while walking. Critical toe clearance occurs approximately halfway through swing phase when the distance betwe...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Moosabhoy MA,Gard SA

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a protocol for dynamometer assisted manual muscle testing of the major muscle groups of the lower extremity and its application to 11 able-bodied children who also had conventional gait analysis to obtain joint kinetics. Data from the manual muscle testing was processed in such a way that the resu...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Fosang A,Baker R

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight healthy male subjects had intra-cortical bone-pins inserted into the proximal tibia and distal femur. Three reflective markers were attached to each bone-pin and four reflective markers were mounted on the skin of the tibia and thigh, respectively. Roentgen-stereophotogrammetric analysis (RSA) was used to determ...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Benoit DL,Ramsey DK,Lamontagne M,Xu L,Wretenberg P,Renström P

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging is frequently accompanied by a deterioration in postural control. Accordingly, the elderly adopt postural strategies in order to maintain balance. The purpose of this study was to compare anticipatory postural adjustments in (healthy) 10 young and 10 elderly subjects using electromyography (EMG) and biomechanica...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Bleuse S,Cassim F,Blatt JL,Labyt E,Derambure P,Guieu JD,Defebvre L

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine spatiotemporal parameters of the walk-to-run transition (WRT) and run-to-walk transition (RWT) when speed is altered with different constant accelerations. Twenty women (height: 168.9+/-3.36cm) performed three accelerations (0.05, 0.07 and 0.1ms(-2)) and three decelerations (-0...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Segers V,Aerts P,Lenoir M,De Clercq D

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which clinical tests of structural characteristics of the foot and ankle could account for variation in the magnitude of regional forces and pressures under the foot during walking in older people. Plantar forces and pressures were obtained from 172 older people (53...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Menz HB,Morris ME

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies indicated that walking with an ankle foot orthosis (AFO) impaired third rocker. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of two types of orthoses, with similar goal settings, on gait, in a homogeneous group of children, using both barefoot and shoe walking as control conditions. Fifteen ch...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Desloovere K,Molenaers G,Van Gestel L,Huenaerts C,Van Campenhout A,Callewaert B,Van de Walle P,Seyler J

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present experiment was to investigate whether, with vision, the magnitude of the effect of calf muscles fatigue on postural control during bipedal quiet standing depends on the eye-visual target distance. Twelve young university students were asked to stand upright as immobile as possible in three v...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Vuillerme N,Burdet C,Isableu B,Demetz S

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral leg movement is accompanied by opposite movements of the supporting leg and trunk segments. This kinematic synergy shifts the center of mass (CM) towards the supporting foot and stabilizes its final position, while the leg movement is being performed. The aim of the present study was to provide insight in the ...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Mouchnino L,Mille ML,Martin N,Baroni G,Cincera M,Bardot A,Delarque A,Massion J,Pedotti A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluctuations in the stride interval time series of unconstrained walking are not random but exhibit long range correlations that decay as a power law [Hausdorff JM, Peng CK, Ladin Z, Wei JY, Goldberger AL. Is walking a random walk? Evidence for long range correlations in stride interval of human gait. J Appl Physiol 1...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Jordan K,Challis JH,Newell KM

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine both the intralimb (within a limb) and interlimb (between the right and left limbs) adaptations that occur in response to a unilaterally applied leg load as subjects walked at their preferred walking speed. It was hypothesized that this adaptation would alter interlimb coordina...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Haddad JM,van Emmerik RE,Whittlesey SN,Hamill J

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Individuals with knee osteoarthritis (OA) experience pain, frontal plane joint laxity and instability. Co-contraction can control laxity and instability but may place constraints on the variability of the knee's motion during gait. Slight variation among gait cycles is normal, but reduced variability of joint m...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Lewek MD,Scholz J,Rudolph KS,Snyder-Mackler L

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of self-selected versus standardized running speeds on within-day and between-day repeatability of lower extremity kinematics and kinetics for running gait. METHODS:Subjects (six female, six male, age 18-35) were recreational athletes with no lower ex...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Queen RM,Gross MT,Liu HY

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There may be concerns about the validity of kinetic models when studying locomotion in obese subjects (OS). The aim of the present study was to improve and validate a relevant representation of obese subject from four kinetic models. Fourteen teenagers with severe primary obesity (BMI = 40 +/- 5.2 kg/m(2)), were studi...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Achard de Leluardière F,Hajri LN,Lacouture P,Duboy J,Frelut ML,Peres G

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In healthy walking, the timing between trunk and pelvic rotations, as well as erector spinae (ES) activity varies systematically with walking velocity, whereas a comparable velocity-dependent adaptation of trunk-pelvis coordination is often reduced or absent in persons with low back pain (LBP). Based on the hypothesis...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Lamoth CJ,Daffertshofer A,Meijer OG,Beek PJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work investigates the kinematic and electromyography (EMG) strategy used by the central nervous system (CNS) to keep equilibrium during anterior-posterior balance on seesaws with different degrees of instability. The movement of hip, knee, and ankle were reconstructed using a 3D motion-analysis system and the EMG...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Almeida GL,Carvalho RL,Talis VL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine prospectively gait related risk factors for exercise-related lower leg pain (ERLLP) in 400 physical education students. Static lower leg alignment was determined, and 3D gait kinematics combined with plantar pressure profiles were collected. After this evaluation, all sports ...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Willems TM,De Clercq D,Delbaere K,Vanderstraeten G,De Cock A,Witvrouw E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abdominal muscles have an important role in control and movement of the lumbar spine and pelvis. Given there is new evidence of morphological and functional differences between distinct anatomical regions of the abdominal muscles, this study investigated whether there are regional differences in postural activity ...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Urquhart DM,Hodges PW,Story IH

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of human gait has expanded and diversified to the extent that it is now possible to identify a substantive literature concerning a variety of gait tasks, such as gait initiation [Halliday SE, Winter DA, Frank JS, Patla AE, Prince F. The initiation of gait in young, elderly, and Parkinson's disease subjects. ...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Sparrow WA,Tirosh O

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most individuals can use different movement and muscle recruitment patterns to perform a stated task but often only one pattern is selected which optimizes an unknown global objective given the individual's neuromusculoskeletal characteristics. Patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FS), characterized by their chronic p...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Pierrynowski MR,Tiidus PM,Galea V

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual impairment is an important risk factor for falls, but relatively little is known about how it affects stair negotiation. The present study determined how medio-lateral (ML) dynamics of stepping and single limb support stability when stepping up or down to a new level were affected by blurring the vision of heal...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Buckley JG,Heasley K,Scally A,Elliott DB

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with peripheral neuropathy (PN) report greater difficulty walking on irregular surfaces with low light (IL) than on flat surfaces with regular lighting (FR). We tested the primary hypothesis that older PN patients would demonstrate greater step width and step width variability under IL conditions than under F...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Thies SB,Richardson JK,Demott T,Ashton-Miller JA

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyze the changes in the standing center of pressure (COP) in a hemiplegic adult population at the beginning and the end of in-patient rehabilitation. The trajectory of the COP was recorded on a force platform and was analyzed in terms of the frequency spectra of the center of gravity (C...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Paillex R,So A

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to describe and quantify centre of pressure (CoP) displacement during walking in 12 unilateral trans-femoral amputees who had worn a prosthesis for at least 10 years. All subjects wore the same type of prosthesis and seven healthy subjects acted as controls. The CoP was acquired by an F-scan ...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Schmid M,Beltrami G,Zambarbieri D,Verni G

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The energy cost of gait (C) is greater in amputee than in normal subjects. Our objective was to assess the influence of lower speed, inefficient pendulum mechanism and disturbed smoothness of centre of body mass (CM(b)) displacement on C in unilateral amputees and to have a better understanding the relationship betwee...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Detrembleur C,Vanmarsenille JM,De Cuyper F,Dierick F

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When using optoelectronic stereophotogrammetry, skin deformation and displacement causes marker movement with respect to the underlying bone. This movement represents an artifact, which affects the estimation of the skeletal system kinematics, and is regarded as the most critical source of error in human movement anal...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Leardini A,Chiari L,Della Croce U,Cappozzo A

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the kinetic strategy and compensatory mechanisms during self-ambulatory gait in children with lumbo-sacral myelomeningocele. Thirty-one children with mid-lumbar to low-sacral myelomeningocele who walked without aids and 21 control children were evaluated by three-dimensional gait analysis. Join...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Gutierrez EM,Bartonek A,Haglund-Akerlind Y,Saraste H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human fossil record is one of the most complete for any mammal. A basal ancestral species, Australopithecus afarensis, exhibits a well-preserved postcranium that permits reconstruction of important events in the evolution of our locomotor skeleton. When compared to those of living apes and humans, it provides insi...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Lovejoy CO

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ankle equinus is the most commonly identified impairment of individuals with spastic hemiplegia (SH). However, it is not clear how equinus at the ankle may contribute to gait deviations at other joints. The purpose of this study was to determine what compensatory gait deviations may occur as a result of an imposed, un...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Goodman MJ,Menown JL,West JM Jr,Barr KM,Vander Linden DW,McMulkin ML

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physical activity in normal daily life is determined to a large extent by the functional ability of a subject. As a result, the measurement of the physical activity that a subject performs spontaneously could be a useful and objective measurement of disability, particularly in patients with disease-related functio...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Paraschiv-Ionescu A,Buchser EE,Rutschmann B,Najafi B,Aminian K

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to quantitatively evaluate spontaneous body sway during maximum grasping maneuver with a hand dynamometer, which we sometimes encounter in clinical practice. The postural reaction of the whole body during maximum grasping maneuver was analyzed in 26 right-handed healthy male volunteers us...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Kato T,Miyamoto K,Shimizu K

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to describe the changes in muscle activation patterns using surface electromyography (sEMG) during walking in patients with cerebral palsy (CP), before and after hamstring lengthening. In the current clinical use of sEMG during walking in CP for pre-operative planning, various authors hav...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Buurke JH,Hermens HJ,Roetenberg D,Harlaar J,Rosenbaum D,Kleissen RF

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers have suggested that sensory cues can improve gait initiation in persons with Parkinson's disease (PD); however, there is little research that documents the effects of sensory cues on gait initiation. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of auditory and cutaneous sensory cues on maximal spee...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Dibble LE,Nicholson DE,Shultz B,MacWilliams BA,Marcus RL,Moncur C

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Movements of the whole-body center of mass during quiet standing have been estimated from measurements of body segment movements. These whole-body center of mass movements have been compared with movements of the center of mass as predicted from a simple inverted-pendulum model of standing. However, the total body cen...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Gage WH,Winter DA,Frank JS,Adkin AL

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of the human cerebellum in short-term (STH) and long-term habituation (LTH) of postural responses to repeated platform perturbations. Ten cerebellar patients and ten age- and sex-matched healthy controls participated. Twenty backward platform translations were a...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Schwabe A,Drepper J,Maschke M,Diener HC,Timmann D

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty self-ambulatory children with mid-lumbar to low-sacral myelomeningocele who walked without aids and 21 control children were evaluated by three-dimensional gait analysis. Characteristic kinematic patterns and parameters in the trunk, pelvis, hip, knee and ankle were analyzed with respect to groups with successi...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Gutierrez EM,Bartonek A,Haglund-Akerlind Y,Saraste H

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00