On the clinical interpretation of overground gait stability indices in children with cerebral palsy.

ABSTRACT: Several indices have been devised to quantify a person's stability from its gait pattern during overground walking. However, clinical interpretation of the indices is difficult because the link between being stable and adopting a mechanically stable gait pattern may not be straightforward. This is particularly true for one of these indices, the margin of stability, for which opposite interpretations are available in the literature. We collected overground walking data in two groups of 20 children, with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP) and typically developing (TD), for two conditions, on flat and on uneven grounds (UG). We postulated that TD children were more stable during gait than children with CP and that both groups were more stable on flat compared to UG. We explored the coherent assoc

SUBMITTER: Sangeux M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11530431 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature