abstract：:Lower extremity musculoskeletal injuries are common, complex, and costly problems. Literature supports associations between static foot structure and dynamic foot function, as well as between overuse injury and demographic characteristics. Previous studies failed to provide a comprehensive biomechanical foot character...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Song J,Choe K,Neary M,Zifchock RA,Cameron KL,Trepa M,Hannan MT,Hillstrom H

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aims of this study were to investigate if patellar tendon shortening (PTS) as a part of SEMLS (single event multilevel surgery) is effective for reduction of flexed knee gait in children with cerebral palsy (CP) and, if PTS leads to stiff knee gait. METHODS:In a randomized controlled study 22 children w...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Klotz MCM,Krautwurst BK,Hirsch K,Niklasch M,Maier MW,Wolf SI,Dreher T

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maintenance of balance and posture is a result of the collaborative efforts of vestibular, proprioceptive, and visual sensory inputs, but a fourth neural input, audition, may also improve balance. Here, we tested the hypothesis that auditory inputs function as environmental spatial landmarks whose effectiveness de...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Karim AM,Rumalla K,King LA,Hullar TE

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electromyography (EMG) is an important parameter in Clinical Gait Analysis (CGA), and is generally interpreted with timing of activation. EMG amplitude comparisons between individuals, muscles or days need normalization. There is no consensus on existing methods. The gold standard, maximum voluntary isometric contract...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Tabard-Fougère A,Rose-Dulcina K,Pittet V,Dayer R,Vuillerme N,Armand S

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postural instability is one of the most disabling and risky symptoms of advanced Parkinson's disease (PD). The purpose of this study was to investigate whether and how this is mediated by a centrally impaired spatial orientation. Therefore, we performed a spatial orientation study in 21 PD patients (mean age 68years, ...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Pawlitzki E,Schlenstedt C,Schmidt N,Rotkirch I,Gövert F,Hartwigsen G,Witt K

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dizziness and imbalance are very common complaints in clinical practice. One of the challenges is to evaluate the 'real' risk of falls. Two tools are available: the patient's self-report and the measure of the patient's balance. We evaluated the relationship between these methods using the Dizziness Handicap...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Chiarovano E,Wang W,Reynolds P,MacDougall HG

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reduced ability to adapt gait, particularly under challenging conditions, may be an important reason why older adults have an increased risk of falling. This study aimed to identify cognitive, psychological and physical mediators of the relationship between impaired gait adaptability and fall risk in older a...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Caetano MJD,Lord SR,Brodie MA,Schoene D,Pelicioni PHS,Sturnieks DL,Menant JC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The impacts of Leg Length Discrepancy (LLD) on the kinematic and dynamic parameters of walking have been widely discussed. But little is known on total mechanical work and energy cost. These two variables are more representative of the functional impairment undergone by the LLD patients. AIM:To assess the c...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Assogba TF,Boulet S,Detrembleur C,Mahaudens P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With increasing numbers of adults owning a cell phone, walking while texting has become common in daily life. Previous research has shown that walking is not entirely automated and when challenged with a secondary task, normal walking patterns are disrupted. This study investigated the effects of texting on the walkin...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Hinton DC,Cheng YY,Paquette C

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lower limb strengthening exercise is pivotal for the management of symptoms related to knee osteoarthritis (OA). Though improvement in clinical symptoms is well documented, concurrent changes in gait biomechanics are ill-defined. This may occur because discrete analyses miss changes following an intervention, analyses...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Brenneman EC,Maly MR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional biomechanical tests allow the assessment of musculoskeletal system impairments in a simple way. Muscle force synergies associated with movement can provide additional information for diagnosis. However, such forces cannot be directly measured noninvasively. This study aims to estimate muscle activations and...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Alvim FC,Lucareli PRG,Menegaldo LL

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Stroke survivors often fall during walking. To reduce fall risk, gait testing and training with avoidance of virtual obstacles is gaining popularity. However, it is unknown whether and how virtual obstacle crossing is associated with fall risk. AIM:The present study assessed whether obstacle crossing char...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Punt M,Bruijn SM,Wittink H,van de Port IG,Wubbels G,van Dieën JH

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of cortical neurons responsive to both the observation of another individual's movement and one's own physical movement has spurred scientists into utilising this interplay for rehabilitation. The idea that humans can quickly transfer motor programmes or refine existing motor strategies through observati...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Patel M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes neuropathy and vasculopathy are the two major complications of diabetes mellitus, leading to diabetic foot disease, of which the worst consequences are plantar ulcers and amputations. Motor impairments like joint stiffness and loss of balance are distinctive effects of diabetes and they have been extensively ...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Scarton A,Jonkers I,Guiotto A,Spolaor F,Guarneri G,Avogaro A,Cobelli C,Sawacha Z

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While the relevance of falls in raising the risk of fractures, hospitalization and disability in older age is well recognized, the factors influencing the onset of fractures and the need for ward admission after a fall have yet to be fully elucidated. We investigated which factors and fall dynamics were main...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Trevisan C,Di Gregorio P,Debiasi E,Pedrotti M,La Guardia M,Manzato E,Sergi G,March A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:Walking requires the integration of the sensory and motor systems. Cognitive distractions have been shown to interfere with negotiation of complex walking environments, especially in populations at greater risk for falls (e.g. the elderly). With the pervasiveness of mobile messaging and the recent introd...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Hashish R,Toney-Bolger ME,Sharpe SS,Lester BD,Mulliken A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to identify gait patterns in polio survivors with calf muscle weakness and associate them to underlying lower extremity impairments, which are expected to help in the search for an optimal orthosis. Unilaterally affected patients underwent barefoot 3D-gait analyses. Gait pattern clusters were created...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Ploeger HE,Bus SA,Nollet F,Brehm MA

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether key spatio-temporal components of gait can be identified in children who are preschoolers. Subsequently the obtained components were correlated to results of functional balance tests to determine which of them are related to balance control. METHODS:Thirty-three typically developing chi...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Verbecque E,Vereeck L,Van de Heyning P,Hallemans A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the foot strike patterns (FSPs) and neutral support (no INV/EVE and no foot rotation) in children, as well as to determine the influence of shod/unshod conditions and sex. A total of 713 children, aged 6 to 16 years, participated in this study (Age=10.28±2.71years, body mass ...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Latorre Román PÁ,Balboa FR,Pinillos FG

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A distal femoral extension osteotomy with patellar tendon advancement (DFEO+PTA) is a common treatment for individuals with cerebral palsy (CP) who walk in crouch. Musculoskeletal modeling suggests that the typical patella baja position post-DFEO+PTA may limit one's abilities to perform sit-to-stand (STS) tasks; howev...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Boyer ER,Stout JL,Laine JC,Gutknecht SM,Oliveira LH,Munger ME,Schwartz MH,Novacheck TF

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyze the motor and visual strategies used when walking around (circumvention) an obstacle in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), in addition to the effects of dopaminergic medication on these strategies. To answer the study question, people with PD (15) and neurologically healthy in...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Simieli L,Vitório R,Rodrigues ST,Zago PFP,Ignacio Pereira VA,Baptista AM,de Paula PHA,Penedo T,Almeida QJ,Barbieri FA

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been proposed that the gait alterations associated with barefoot running are mediated by alterations in sensory feedback, yet there has been no data to support this claim. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the role of superficial plantar cutaneous feedback in barefoot and shod running. METHOD...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Thompson MA,Hoffman KM

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The high energy cost of paraplegic walking using a reciprocating gait orthosis (RGO) is attributed to limited hip motion and excessive upper limb loading for support. To address the limitation, we designed the hip energy storage walking orthosis (HESWO) which uses a spring assembly on the pelvic shell to sto...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Yang M,Li J,Guan X,Gao L,Gao F,Du L,Zhao H,Yang D,Yu Y,Wang Q,Wang R,Ji L

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans use visual optic flow to regulate average walking speed. Among many possible strategies available, healthy humans walking on motorized treadmills allow fluctuations in stride length (Ln) and stride time (Tn) to persist across multiple consecutive strides, but rapidly correct deviations in stride speed (Sn=Ln/Tn...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Salinas MM,Wilken JM,Dingwell JB

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review investigates current protocols using Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) in shoulder research, and outlines future paths regarding IMU use for shoulder research. Different databases were searched for relevant articles. Criteria for study selection were (1) research in healthy persons or persons with shoulder...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： De Baets L,van der Straaten R,Matheve T,Timmermans A

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Joint kinematics can be calculated by Direct Kinematics (DK), which is used in most clinical gait laboratories, or Inverse Kinematics (IK), which is mainly used for musculoskeletal research. In both approaches, joint centre locations are required to compute joint angles. The hip joint centre (HJC) in DK models can be ...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Kainz H,Carty CP,Maine S,Walsh HPJ,Lloyd DG,Modenese L

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradykinesia is a prominent problem for persons with Parkinson's disease (PD) and has been studied extensively with upper extremity tasks; however there is a lack of research examining bradykinesia in targeted lower extremity tasks related to mobility. Navigating steps and curbs are challenging tasks for older adults ...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Stone AE,Skinner JW,Lee HK,Hass CJ

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is an observational cross-sectional study evaluating gait dynamics in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD) and severe postural deformities, PD without axial deviations and healthy subjects. Ten PS individuals with Pisa syndrome (PS) and nine subjects with Camptocormia (CC) performed 3-D Gait Analysis and were e...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Tramonti C,Di Martino S,Unti E,Frosini D,Bonuccelli U,Rossi B,Ceravolo R,Chisari C

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While cognitive-motor interference in dual-task activities is well established, it is still unknown how such interference is influenced by concurrent visual challenges. Nineteen community-dwelling healthy, cognitively intact, older adults (Mean±SD=71.45±1.25years, 6 males) and nineteen young adults (Mean±SD=22.25±0.68...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Krishnan V,Cho YH,Mohamed O

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive-dynamic ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) are commonly prescribed to improve locomotion for people with lower limb musculoskeletal weakness. The clinical prescription and design process are typically qualitative and based on observational assessment and experience. Prior work examining the effect of AFO design charac...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Russell Esposito E,Ranz EC,Schmidtbauer KA,Neptune RR,Wilken JM

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to analyze the compensatory effect of the pelvis and lower extremities on sagittal spinal malalignment in patients with pelvic incidence (PI) and lumbar lordosis (LL) mismatch. A series of parameters including PI, LL, PI-LL, thoracic kyphosis (TK), pelvic tilt (PT), sacral slope (SS), knee flexion an...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Cheng X,Zhang K,Sun X,Zhao C,Li H,Zhao J

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When investigating whole-body balance in dynamic tasks, adequately tracking the whole-body centre of mass (CoM) or derivatives such as the extrapolated centre of mass (XCoM) can be crucial but add considerable measurement efforts. The aim of this study was to investigate whether reduced kinematic models can still prov...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Jamkrajang P,Robinson MA,Limroongreungrat W,Vanrenterghem J

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether knee contact force and knee pain are different between continuous and interval walking exercise in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS:Twenty seven patients with unilateral symptomatic knee OA completed two separate walking exercise sessions on a treadmill at 1.3m/s on two dif...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Farrokhi S,Jayabalan P,Gustafson JA,Klatt BA,Sowa GA,Piva SR

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral palsy (CP) impairs an individual's ability to move and control one's posture. Unfortunately, the signs and symptoms of CP may not be apparent before age two. Evaluating sitting posture is a potential way to assess the developing mechanisms that contribute to CP. The purpose of this project was to determine th...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Wickstrom J,Stergiou N,Kyvelidou A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to safely avoid obstacles, humans must rely on visual information regarding the position and shape of the object obtained in advance. The present study aimed to reveal the duration of obstacle visibility necessary for appropriate visuomotor control during obstacle avoidance in healthy older adults. Participan...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Kunimune S,Okada S

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sagittal alignment is known to greatly vary between asymptomatic adult subjects; however, there are no studies on the possible effect of these differences on gait. The aim of this study is to investigate whether asymptomatic adults with different Roussouly sagittal alignment morphotypes walk differently. Ninety-one as...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Bakouny Z,Assi A,Massaad A,Saghbini E,Lafage V,Skalli W,Ghanem I,Kreichati G

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans tend to walk economically, with preferred step width and length corresponding to an energetic optimum. In the case of step width, it is costlier to walk with either wider or narrower steps than normally preferred. Wider steps require more mechanical work to redirect the body's motion laterally with each step, b...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Shorter KA,Wu A,Kuo AD

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Portable inertial measurement units (IMUs) are suitable for motion analysis outside the laboratory. However, IMUs depend on the calibration of each body segment to measure human movement. Different calibration approaches have been developed for simplicity of use or similarity to laboratory motion analysis, but they ha...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Robert-Lachaine X,Mecheri H,Larue C,Plamondon A

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUNDS:The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between the level of ambulatory physical activity, measured by physical activity tracker, and the clinical components of physical frailty, among nursing home residents. METHODS:We proceeded in 3 steps: (1) Validation of the physical activity tracker (i.e...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Buckinx F,Mouton A,Reginster JY,Croisier JL,Dardenne N,Beaudart C,Nelis J,Lambert E,Appelboom G,Bruyère O

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients undergoing a clinical gait analysis often walk slower than healthy people. However, data on how speed affects upper body movements, especially of the arms and shoulders, are scarce. Therefore, in this descriptive study, we examined how changes in walking speed affect upper-body kinematics and aspects of inter...

journal_title：Gait & posture

authors： Romkes J,Bracht-Schweizer K

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00