ArticleExperimental brain research2015
Quick foot placement adjustments during gait: direction matters.
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- Control strategies for rapid, visually guided adjustments of the foot during continuous walking.Experimental brain research · 2019Article
- Lower extremity joint-level responses to pelvis perturbation during human walking.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Effect of a cognitive task on online adjustments when avoiding stepping on an obstacle and stepping on a target during walking in young adults.Experimental brain research · 2018Article
- Different neural substrates for precision stepping and fast online step adjustments in youth.Brain structure & function · 2018Article
- Online adjustments of leg movements in healthy young and old.Experimental brain research · 2017Review
- Effects of aging and dual tasking on step adjustments to perturbations in visually cued walking.Experimental brain research · 2015Article
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Abstract
To prevent falls, adjustment of foot placement is a frequently used strategy to regulate and restore gait stability. While foot trajectory adjustments have been studied during discrete stepping, online corrections during walking are more common in daily life. Here, we studied quick foot placement adjustments during gait, using an instrumented treadmill equipped with a projector, which allowed us to project virtual stepping stones. This allowed us to shift some of the approaching stepping stones in a chosen direction at a given moment, such that participants were forced to adapt their step in that specific direction and had varying time available to do so. Thirteen healthy participants performed six experimental trials all consisting of 580 stepping stones, and 96 of those stones were shifted anterior, posterior or lateral at one out of four distances from the participant. Overall, long-step gait adjustments were performed more successfully than short-step and side-step gait adjustments. We showed that the ability to execute movement adjustments depends on the direction of the trajectory adjustment. Our findings suggest that choosing different leg movement adjustments for obstacle avoidance comes with different risks and that strategy choice does not depend exclusively on environmental constraints. The used obstacle avoidance strategy choice might be a trade-off between the environmental factors (i.e., the cost of a specific adjustment) and individuals' ability to execute a specific adjustment with success (i.e., the associated execution risk).
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