ArticleScientific reports2017
Minimum toe clearance: probing the neural control of locomotion.
Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02165787 (Investigation of Gait Parameters in Health and Neurological Disease Under Varying Locomotor Conditions), which is not on this map. Cited by 22 papers.
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Investigation of Gait Parameters in Health and Neurological Disease Under Varying Locomotor Conditions
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Intensive upper extremity training improved whole body movement control for children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy.Gait & posture · 2020Trial
- Familiarization with treadmill walking: How much is enough?Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- Space Physiology and Technology: Adaptations, Countermeasures, and Opportunities for Wearable Systems.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Review
- Intention-driven ankle exoskeleton training acutely alters swing foot clearance distribution: a preliminary study.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2026Article
- Hand dexterity and mobility independently predict cognition in older adults: a multi-domain regression analysis.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- Establishing thresholds for swing transparency at the knee during gait to inform exoskeleton design.PloS one · 2025Article
- Females Present Reduced Minimum Toe Clearance During Walking As Compared to Males in Active Older Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024Article
- Automatic Stub Avoidance for a Powered Prosthetic Leg Over Stairs and Obstacles.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2024Article
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- Variability and symmetry of gait kinematics under dual-task performance of older patients with depression.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2023Article
- Taping-induced cutaneous stimulation to the ankle tendons reduces minimum toe clearance variability.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Using Deep Learning to Predict Minimum Foot-Ground Clearance Event from Toe-Off Kinematics.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The relationship between spatiotemporal gait parameters and cognitive function in healthy adults: protocol for a cross-sectional study.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022Article
- Biomechanical Correlates of Falls Risk in Gait Impaired Stroke Survivors.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
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- A Scoping Review on Minimum Foot Clearance: An Exploration of Level-Ground Clearance in Individuals with Abnormal Gait.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- A cross-sectional study of foot-ground clearance in healthy community dwelling Japanese cohorts aged 50, 60 and 70 years.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
- Pathological Gait Signatures of Post-stroke Dementia With Toe-Off and Heel-to-Ground Angles Discriminate From Alzheimer's Disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021Article
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9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Minimum toe clearance (MTC) occurs during a highly dynamic phase of the gait cycle and is associated with the highest risk of unintentional contact with obstacles or the ground. Age, cognitive function, attention and visual feedback affect foot clearance but how these factors interact to influence MTC control is not fully understood. We measured MTC in 121 healthy individuals aged 20-80 under four treadmill walking conditions; normal walking, lower visual field restriction and two Stroop colour/word naming tasks of two difficulty levels. Competition for cognitive and attentional resources from the Stroop task resulted in significantly lower mean MTC in older adults, with the difficult Stroop task associated with a higher frequency of extremely low MTC values and subsequently an increased modelled probability of tripping in this group. While older adults responded to visual restriction by markedly skewing MTC distributions towards higher values, this condition was also associated with frequent, extremely low MTC values. We reveal task-specific, age-dependent patterns of MTC control in healthy adults. Age-related differences are most pronounced during heavy, distracting cognitive load. Analysis of critically-low MTC values during dual-task walking may have utility in the evaluation of locomotor control and fall risk in older adults and patients with motor control deficits.
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