Gait speed and individual characteristics are related to specific gait metrics in neurotypical adults.

ABSTRACT: Gait biofeedback is a well-studied strategy to reduce gait impairments such as propulsion deficits or asymmetric step lengths. With biofeedback, participants alter their walking to reach the desired magnitude of a specific parameter (the biofeedback target) with each step. Biofeedback of anterior ground reaction force and step length is commonly used in post-stroke gait training as these variables are associated with self-selected gait speed, fall risk, and the energy cost of walking. However, biofeedback targets are often set as a function of an individual's baseline walking pattern, which may not reflect the ideal magnitude of that gait parameter. Here we developed prediction models based on speed, leg length, mass, sex, and age to predict anterior ground reaction force and step length o

SUBMITTER: Bonilla Yanez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195830 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature