Multi-Trial Gait Adaptation of Healthy Individuals during Visual Kinematic Perturbations.

ABSTRACT: Optimizing rehabilitation strategies requires understanding the effects of contextual cues on adaptation learning. Prior studies have examined these effects on the specificity of split-belt walking adaptation, showing that contextual visual cues can be manipulated to modulate the magnitude, transfer, and washout of split-belt-induced learning in humans. Specifically, manipulating the availability of vision during training or testing phases of learning resulted in differences in adaptive mechanisms for temporal and spatial features of walking. However, multi-trial locomotor training has been rarely explored when using visual kinematic gait perturbations. In this study, we investigated multi-trial locomotor adaptation in ten healthy individuals while applying visual kinematic perturbations.

SUBMITTER: Luu TP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5476704 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature