Trial reportPloS one2019
Dynamic stability and stepping strategies of young healthy adults walking on an oscillating treadmill.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Effect of Human Settlement Pedestrian Environment on Gait of Older People: An Umbrella Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Perturbations during Gait: A Systematic Review of Methodologies and Outcomes.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Pooled it
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- Learning effects during balance analysis on a modified posturomed-platform in healthy dogs.BMC veterinary research · 2026Article
- Probability of lateral instability while walking on winding paths.Journal of biomechanics · 2024Article
- How older adults maintain lateral balance while walking on narrowing paths.Gait & posture · 2024Article
- People with degenerative cervical myelopathy have impaired reactive balance during walking.Gait & posture · 2024Article
- Electrical Stimulation of Distal Tibial Nerve During Stance Phase of Walking May Reverse Effects of Unilateral Paw Pad Anesthesia in the Cat.Motor control · 2023Article
- Impaired foot placement strategy during walking in people with incomplete spinal cord injury.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Rethinking margin of stability: Incorporating step-to-step regulation to resolve the paradox.Journal of biomechanics · 2022Article
- Small directional treadmill perturbations induce differential gait stability adaptation.Journal of neurophysiology · 2022Article
- Biomechanical Correlates of Falls Risk in Gait Impaired Stroke Survivors.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Biomechanics Analysis of the Lower Limbs in 20 Male Sprinters Using the International Society of Biomechanics Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Model and the Conventional Gait Model.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2021Article
- Increased Arm Swing and Rocky Surfaces Reduces Postural Control in Healthy Young Adults.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021Article
- Frontal plane dynamics of the centre of mass during quadrupedal locomotion on a split-belt treadmill.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2020Article
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Abstract
Understanding how people modify their stepping to maintain gait stability may provide information on fall risk and help to understand strategies used to reduce loss of balance. The purpose of this study was to identify the stepping strategies healthy young individuals select to maintain balance while walking on a destabilizing surface in various directions. A treadmill mounted on top of a 6 degree-of-freedom motion base was used to generate support surface oscillations in different degrees of freedom and amplitudes. Fifteen healthy young adults (21.3 ± 1.4 years) walked at self-selected speeds while continuous sinusoidal oscillations were imposed to the support surface in a one degree of freedom: rotation or translation in the mediolateral (ML) direction and rotation or translation in the anteroposterior (AP) direction, with each condition repeated at three different amplitudes. We compared step width, length, and frequency and the mean and variability of margin of stability (MoS) during each experimental walking condition with a control condition, in which the support surface was stationary. Subjects chose a common strategy of increasing step width (p < 0.001) and decreasing step length (p = 0.008) while increasing mediolateral MoS (p < 0.001), particularly during oscillations that challenged frontal plane control, with rotations of the walking surface producing the greatest changes to stepping.
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