ArticleEuropean spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society2011
Gait adaptations in low back pain patients with lumbar disc herniation: trunk coordination and arm swing.
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- Gait analysis after total hip arthroplasty using direct anterior approach versus anterolateral approach: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2019Pooled it
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- Axial Thorax-Pelvis Coordination During Gait is not Predictive of Apparent Trunk Stiffness.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
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- Combined Analysis of Gait Cycle and Imaging Parameters in Patients with Lumbar Disc Herniation: An Exploratory Study.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2026Article
- Effects of Exercise-Based Rehabilitation on Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Effectiveness of Pulse Intravenous Infusion of Methylprednisolone on Pain in Patients with Lumbar Disc Herniation: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Anesthesiology and pain medicine · 2024Article
- In-vivo 3-dimensional spine and lower body gait symmetry analysis in healthy individuals.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Back morphology and walking patterns mean 13.8 years after surgery for lumbar disk herniation in adolescents.Pain reports · 2024Article
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- Analysing gait patterns in degenerative lumbar spine diseases: a literature review.Journal of spine surgery (Hong Kong) · 2022Review
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- Effects of Hip Bracing on Gait Biomechanics, Pain and Function in Subjects With Mild to Moderate Hip Osteoarthritis.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Article
- Gait Kinetic and Kinematic Changes in Chronic Low Back Pain Patients and the Effect of Manual Therapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Association between pain and gait instability in patients with lumbar disc herniation.The Journal of international medical research · 2021Article
- Gait analysis in the elderly patients with lumbar spinal stenosis.International orthopaedics · 2021Article
- Deep Convolutional and LSTM Networks on Multi-Channel Time Series Data for Gait Phase Recognition.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Coordination of Axial Trunk Rotations During Gait in Low Back Pain. A Narrative Review.Journal of human kinetics · 2021Article
- Dysfunctional muscle activities and co-contraction in the lower-limb of lumbar disc herniation patients during walking.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Patients with chronic non-specific low back pain (LBP) walk with more synchronous (in-phase) horizontal pelvis and thorax rotations than controls. Low thorax-pelvis relative phase in these patients appears to result from in-phase motion of the thorax with the legs, which was hypothesized to affect arm swing. In the present study, gait kinematics were compared between LBP patients with lumbar disc herniation and healthy controls during treadmill walking at different speeds and with different step lengths. Movements of legs, arms, and trunk were recorded. The patients walked with larger pelvis rotations than healthy controls, and with lower relative phase between pelvis and thorax horizontal rotations, specifically when taking large steps. They did so by rotating the thorax more in-phase with the pendular movements of the legs, thereby limiting the amplitudes of spine rotation. In the patients, arm swing was out-of phase with the leg, as in controls. Consequently, the phase relationship between thorax rotations and arm swing was altered in the patients.
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