Dynamic stability and spatiotemporal parameters during turning in healthy young adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Turning while walking has a frequent occurrence in daily life. Evaluation of its dynamic stability will facilitate fall prevention and rehabilitation scheme. This knowledge is so limited that we set it as the first aim of this study. Another aim was to investigate spatiotemporal parameters during turning.

Methods

Fifteen healthy young adults were instructed to perform straight walking, 45° step turn to the left and 45° spin turn to the right at natural speed. Dynamic stability was measured by margin of stability (MoS) in anterior, posterior, left and right direction at each data point where significant differences were detected using 95% bootstrap confidence band. Common spatiotemporal parameters were computed in each condition subdivided into approach

SUBMITTER: He C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6151057 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature