ArticleExperimental brain research2016
The impact of vision on the dynamic characteristics of the gait: strategies in children with blindness.
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- Effect of peripheral field loss on gait performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- The Role of a Pediatric Belt Cane in Children with Cerebral Visual Impairment.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- Side dominance and eye patches obscuring half of the visual field do not affect walking kinematics.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Full-body kinematics and head stabilisation strategies during walking in patients with chronic unilateral and bilateral vestibulopathy.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Dynamic stability evaluation of trunk accelerations during walking in blind and sighted individuals.BMC ophthalmology · 2024Article
- Development and validation of a white cane use perceived advantages and disadvantages (WCPAD) questionnaire.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Comparison of the Gait Biomechanical Constraints in Three Different Type of Neuromotor Damages.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Inertial Measurement Unit Sensors in Assistive Technologies for Visually Impaired People, a Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Assessment of Motor Skills in Children With Visual Impairment: A Systematic and Integrative Review.Clinical medicine insights. Pediatrics · 2019Review
- The spatiotemporal gait parameters among people with visual impairment: A literature review study.Oman journal of ophthalmologyReview
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Abstract
Visually impaired persons present an atypical gait pattern characterized by slower walking speed, shorter stride length and longer time of stance. Three explanatory hypotheses have been advanced in the literature: balance deficit, lack of an anticipatory mechanisms and foot probing the ground. In the present study, we compared the three hypotheses by applying their predictions to gait analysis and posturography of blind children without neurological impairment and compared their performance with that of an age-matched control group. The gait analysis results documented that blind children presented reduced walking velocity and step length, increased step width and external rotation of the foot progression angle, reduced ground reaction force and ankle maximum angle, moment and power in late stance, increased head flexion, decreased thorax flexion and pelvis anteversion, compared with the control group. The posturographic analysis showed equal skill level between blind children and normally sighted children when they close their eyes. The results are consistent with only one of the three hypotheses: namely, they prove that blind children's gait is influenced only by the absence of visually driven anticipatory control mechanisms. Finally, rehabilitative recommendations for children with blindness are advanced in discussion.
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