Trial reportEuropean journal of applied physiology2007
Physiological costs and temporo-spatial parameters of walking on a treadmill vary with body weight unloading and speed in both healthy young and older women.
Trial report in European journal of applied physiology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- The Metabolic Cost of Walking in healthy young and older adults - A Systematic Review and Meta Analysis.Scientific reports · 2019Pooled it
- Influence of body weight unloading on human gait characteristics: a systematic review.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2018Pooled it
- Probing gait adaptations: The impact of aging on dynamic stability and reflex control mechanisms under varied weight-bearing conditions.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Article
- Augmenting strength-to-weight ratio by body weight unloading affects walking performance equally in obese and nonobese older adults.Age (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2016Article
- Body weight independently affects articular cartilage catabolism.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2015Article
- Functional mobility of older adults after concentric and eccentric endurance exercise.European journal of applied physiology · 2012Article
- Controlling patient participation during robot-assisted gait training.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2011Article
- Aging and partial body weight support affects gait variability.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2008Article
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Abstract
Walking on a treadmill with Body Weight Unloading (BWU), which has been successfully used on patients with neurological conditions, may also be used as a training tool to increase walking speed in healthy individuals. We hypothesised that BWU enables individuals to walk at a faster speed on a treadmill than they would do in normal gravity conditions without increasing their effort and with an increase in both stride length (SL) and stride frequency (SF). Oxygen uptake, heart rate (HR), SL and SF of six older women (mean +/- SD; 70 +/- 4 years) and six young women (26 +/- 3 years) were measured during treadmill walking at three self-selected speeds (comfortable, slow and fast) and three different percentages of BWU (0, 20 and 40%). No significant differences were found between the groups in any self-selected walking speeds and any of the other variables. The combined data of the two groups showed that walking energy cost per unit of time (WECt) and HR at fast speed with 40% of BWU (258 +/- 60 J kg(-1) min(-1) and 95 +/- 15 beats min(-1), respectively) were similar to those measured at comfortable speed with no BWU (273 +/- 47 J kg(-1) min(-1) and 101 +/- 16 beats min(-1), respectively). Also SL and SF increased significantly with speed (P < 0.017) at any given percentage of BWU. The results suggest that 40% of BWU enables both young and older women to walk at a faster speed on a treadmill without increasing their effort and with an increase in both SL and SF.
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