Faster or longer steps: Maintaining fast walking in older adults at risk for mobility disability.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The ability to walk at various speeds is essential to independence for older adults. Maintaining fast walking requires changes in spatial-temporal measures, increasing step length and/or decreasing step time. It is unknown how mobility affects the parameters that change between preferred and fast walking.

Research question

How does preferred walking performance and measures of strength and mobility relate to the approach (decreasing step time or increasing step length) older adults at risk for mobility disability use to maintain fast walking speeds?.

Methods

Peak isokinetic dynamometry of knee and ankle and several mobility evaluations, including the Timed Up-and-Go, Short Physical Performance Battery, and Dynamic Gait Index, assessed mobility and strength

SUBMITTER: Baudendistel ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9277656 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature