ArticleJournal of biomechanics2016
Body weight support impacts lateral stability during treadmill walking.
Article in Journal of biomechanics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03458169 (Usability of a New Overground Body Weight Support Rehabilitation Robot LEAP), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Usability of a New Overground Body Weight Support Rehabilitation Robot LEAP: A Monocentric Consideration-of-concept Trial
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Clinical indications and protocol considerations for selecting initial body weight support levels in gait rehabilitation: a systematic review.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2024Pooled it
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- Influence of body weight unloading on human gait characteristics: a systematic review.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2018Pooled it
- Overground walking patterns after chronic incomplete spinal cord injury show distinct response patterns to unloading.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2018Trial
- Improvement in Gait Variability over 24 Months in an Individual with Hemiparesis following Stroke: A Case Report.Physical therapy research · 2026Article
- 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
- The effects of weight-bearing manipulations on gait and its underlying neural control mechanisms in toe walking children.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Adaptive gait responses to varying weight-bearing conditions: Inferences from gait dynamics and H-reflex magnitude.Experimental physiology · 2024Article
- Development of split-force-controlled body weight support (SF-BWS) robot for gait rehabilitation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Control System Design of an Underactuated Dynamic Body Weight Support System Using Its Stability.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Risk-of-falling related outcomes improved in community-dwelling older adults after a 6-week sideways walking intervention: a feasibility and pilot study.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
- Design and Validation of a Low-Cost Bodyweight Support System for Overground Walking.Journal of medical devices · 2020Article
- Mediolateral damping of an overhead body weight support system assists stability during treadmill walking.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2020Article
- Simulation of human gait with body weight support: benchmarking models and unloading strategies.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2020Article
- Speed impacts frontal-plane maneuver stability of individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury.Clinical biomechanics (Bristol, Avon) · 2020Article
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- Robotic body weight support enables safe stair negotiation in compliance with basic locomotor principles.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Gait alterations during walking with partial body weight supported on a treadmill and over the ground.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Does variability of footfall kinematics correlate with dynamic stability of the centre of mass during walking?PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
Body weight support (BWS) systems are a common tool used in gait rehabilitation. BWS systems may alter the requirements for an individual to actively stabilize by 1) providing lateral restoring forces that reduce the requirements for the nervous system to actively stabilize and 2) decreasing the stabilizing gravitational moment in the frontal plane, which could increase the requirements to actively stabilize. The goal of the current study was to quantify the interaction between BWS and lateral stability. We hypothesized that when able-bodied people walk with BWS: 1) the lateral restoring forces provided by BWS would reduce the requirements to stabilize in the frontal plane when comparing dynamically similar gaits, and 2) increasing BWS would decrease the stabilizing gravitational moment in the frontal plane and increase the requirements to stabilize when speed is constrained. Our findings partly support these hypotheses, but indicate a complex interaction between BWS and lateral stability. With BWS, subjects significantly decreased step width variability and significantly increased step width (p<0.05) for both the dynamically similar and Speed-Matched conditions. The decrease in step width variability may be attributable to a combination of lateral restoring forces decreasing the mechanical requirements to stabilize and an enhanced sense of position that could have improved locomotor control. Increases in step width when walking with high levels of BWS could have been due to decreases in the gravitational moment about the stance limb, which may challenge the control of stability in multiple planes.
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