ArticleGait & posture2020
Differential deficits in spatial and temporal interlimb coordination during walking in persons with incomplete spinal cord injury.
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- Gait analysis methods in people with spinal cord injury: a systematic review.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
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- Degenerative cervical myelopathy delays responses to lateral balance perturbations regardless of predictability.Journal of neurophysiology · 2022Article
- A Wearable Mixed Reality Platform to Augment Overground Walking: A Feasibility Study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Multisite Transcutaneous Spinal Stimulation for Walking and Autonomic Recovery in Motor-Incomplete Tetraplegia: A Single-Subject Design.Physical therapy · 2022Article
- Acute intermittent hypoxia as a potential adjuvant to improve walking following spinal cord injury: evidence, challenges, and future directions.Current physical medicine and rehabilitation reports · 2020Article
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backgroundReturning to community walking remains a major challenge for persons with incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) due, in part, to impaired interlimb coordination. Here, we examined spatial and temporal features of interlimb coordination during walking and their associations to gait deficits in persons with chronic iSCI. RESEARCH QUESTION: Do deficits in spatial and temporal interlimb coordination correspond differentially to clinical indicators of walking performance in persons with iSCI?
methodsSixteen persons with chronic iSCI and eleven able-bodied individuals participated in this study. Participants walked at self-selected gait speeds along an instrumented walkway that recorded left and right step lengths and times. We quantified interlimb coordination in terms of normalized differences between left and right step lengths (spatial asymmetry index) and step times (temporal asymmetry index), as well as, gap and phase coordination indices. We then assessed the extent to which these indices independently associated with clinical measures of walking performance.
resultsParticipants with iSCI demonstrated greater spatial and temporal asymmetry, as well as, reduced gap and phase interlimb coordination as compared to age-matched controls (p < 0.001). We found no linear relationships between spatial and temporal asymmetry indices (p > 0.05) or between gap and phase coordination indices (p > 0.05). Spatial and temporal asymmetry indices weakly correlated with SCI-FAI composite scores (r SIGNIFICANCE: Differential impairments in spatial and temporal interlimb coordination correspond to overground walking deficits in persons with chronic iSCI. Spatial asymmetry associated with decreased walking speed and increased reliance on hand-held assistive devices. Gait training methods that target well-defined space and time domains of interlimb coordination may enhance overground gait training in persons with iSCI.
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