Healthy individuals are more maneuverable when walking slower while navigating a virtual obstacle course.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:Maintaining stability, especially in the mediolateral direction, is important for successful walking. Navigating in the community, however, may require people to reduce stability to make quick lateral transitions, creating a tradeoff between stability and maneuverability. Walking slower can improve stability during steady state walking, but there remains a need to better understand how walking speed influences maneuverability. This study investigated how walking at different speeds influenced how individuals modulate both stability and maneuverability in a virtual obstacle course. METHODS:Fifteen healthy adults walked on a treadmill in a virtual environment for 6 trials each at typical and slower speed. Participants made repeated transitions between virtual sets of arches disp

SUBMITTER: Hsieh KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5866787 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature