ArticleGait & posture2017
Increased gait variability may not imply impaired stride-to-stride control of walking in healthy older adults: Winner: 2013 Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society Best Paper Award.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The Effects of High-Speed Resistance Training on Health Outcomes in Independent Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
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- Multi-objective control in human walking: insight gained through simultaneous degradation of energetic and motor regulation systems.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2019Trial
- Walking as a Window to the Brain: Redefining Gait in Neurology.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Force-based manipulation via wearable focal vibration for pain relief and changes in gait biomechanics in diabetic peripheral neuropathy: a secondary analysis of a pilot trial.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Walking with increased step length variability increases the metabolic cost of walking in young adults.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
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- Minimum Electromyography Sensor Set Needed to Identify Age-Related Impairments in the Neuromuscular Control of Walking Using the Dynamic Motor Control Index.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Walking with increased step length variability increases the metabolic cost of walking.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Fluctuations in Upper and Lower Body Movement during Walking in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus and Parkinson's Disease Assessed by Motion Capture with a Smartphone Application, TDPT-GT.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Gait Variability at Different Walking Speeds.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2023Article
- How older adults regulate lateral stepping on narrowing walking paths.Journal of biomechanics · 2023Article
- Effects of diabetes mellitus on step length and minimum toe clearance adaptation.Biomedical engineering online · 2023Article
- Recruit-aged adults may preferentially weight task goals over deleterious cost functions during short duration loaded and imposed gait tasks.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Overground gait adaptability in older adults with type 2 diabetes in response to virtual targets and physical obstacles.PloS one · 2023Article
- Adaptive multi-objective control explains how humans make lateral maneuvers while walking.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Insight into the hierarchical control governing leg stiffness during the stance phase of running.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Is there a trade-off between economy and task goal variability in transfemoral amputee gait?Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Quantifying the effect of sagittal plane joint angle variability on bipedal fall risk.PloS one · 2022Article
- Perceptual-motor styles.Experimental brain research · 2021Review
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Abstract
Older adults exhibit increased gait variability that is associated with fall history and predicts future falls. It is not known to what extent this increased variability results from increased physiological noise versus a decreased ability to regulate walking movements. To "walk", a person must move a finite distance in finite time, making stride length (L
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