ArticleEuropean journal of applied physiology2021
Effects of ageing on responses to stepping-target displacements during walking.
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- Decline in Sensory Integration in Old Age and Its Related Functional Brain Connectivity Correlates Observed during a Virtual Reality Task.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Reduced corticospinal drive and inflexible temporal adaptation during visually guided walking in older adults.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Article
- How older adults regulate lateral stepping on narrowing walking paths.Journal of biomechanics · 2023Article
- Post-stroke deficits in mediolateral foot placement accuracy depend on the prescribed walking task.Journal of biomechanics · 2021Article
- Adapting Footfall Rhythmicity to Auditory Perturbations Affects Resilience of Locomotor Behavior: A Proof-of-Concept Study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Basic Spatiotemporal Gait Variables of Young and Older Healthy Volunteers Walking Along a Novel Figure-of-8 Path.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeHuman sensory and motor systems deteriorate with age. When walking, older adults may therefore find it more difficult to adjust their steps to new visual information, especially considering that such adjustments require control of balance as well as of foot trajectory. Our study investigates the effects of ageing on lower limb responses to unpredictable target shifts.
methodsParticipants walked on a treadmill with projected stepping targets that occasionally shifted in the medial or lateral direction. The shifts occurred at a random moment during the early half of the swing phase of either leg. Kinematic, kinetic and muscle activity data were collected.
resultsOlder adults responded later and corrected for a smaller proportion of the shift than young adults. The order in which muscle activation changed was similar in both groups, with responses of gluteus medius and semitendinosus from about 120 to 140 ms after the shift. Most muscles responded slightly later to lateral target shifts in the older adults than in the young adults, but this difference was not observed for medial target shifts. Ageing delayed the behavioural responses more than it did the electromyographic (EMG) responses.
conclusionsOur study suggests that older adults can adjust their walking to small target shifts during the swing phase, but not as well as young adults. Furthermore, muscle strength probably plays a substantial role in the changes in online adjustments during ageing.
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