Development of a Gait Analysis Application for Assessing Upper and Lower Limb Movements to Detect Pathological Gait.

ABSTRACT: Pathological gait in patients with Hakim's disease (HD, synonymous with idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus; iNPH), Parkinson's disease (PD), and cervical myelopathy (CM) has been subjectively evaluated in this study. We quantified the characteristics of upper and lower limb movements in patients with pathological gait. We analyzed 1491 measurements of 1 m diameter circular walking from 122, 12, and 93 patients with HD, PD, and CM, respectively, and 200 healthy volunteers using the Three-Dimensional Pose Tracker for Gait Test. Upper and lower limb movements of 2D coordinates projected onto body axis sections were derived from estimated 3D relative coordinates. The hip and knee joint angle ranges on the sagittal plane were significantly smaller in the following order: healthy > CM > PD

SUBMITTER: Taishaku A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11479076 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature