Observational studyPloS one2020
Active foot placement control ensures stable gait: Effect of constraints on foot placement and ankle moments.
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- Multi-Task Assessment of Context-Specific Gait Changes to Virtual Reality-Based Visual Perturbations.The Laryngoscope · 2026Article
- Biomechanical Characteristics of Compensatory Reactive Step Responding to the Simulated Trip Perturbation While Walking in Community-Dwelling People With Stroke: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Changes in corticospinal excitability in response to mediolateral gait instability.Experimental physiology · 2026Article
- The impact of visual perturbations on balance control during walking.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
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- How do we tread? Differences in stability-related foot placement control between overground and treadmill walking in young adults.PloS one · 2026Article
- Foot placement coordination is impaired in people with Parkinson's disease.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Association Between Physical Performance, Gait Variability, and Fall Risk in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Predictive Validity of Step-Width Variability for Screening of Fall Risk.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Adapting lateral stepping control to walk on winding paths.Journal of biomechanics · 2025Article
- A model of task-level human stepping regulation yields semistable walking.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- Modelling strategies supplemental to foot placement for frontal-plane stability in walking.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024Article
- A model of task-level human stepping regulation yields semistable walking.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- The condition for dynamic stability in humans walking with feedback control.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- The ground reaction force pattern during walking under vestibular-demanding task with/without mastoid vibration: implication for future sensorimotor training in astronauts.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Effects of Foot Structure Type on Core Stability in University Athletes.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Motion information plays only a secondary role in sex identification of walking persons in frontal view.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Humans prioritize walking efficiency or walking stability based on environmental risk.PloS one · 2023Article
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- Mediolateral foot placement control can be trained: Older adults learn to walk more stable, when ankle moments are constrained.PloS one · 2023Article
- Asymmetry measures for quantification of mechanisms contributing to dynamic stability during stepping-in-place gait.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Step-by-step foot placement control, relative to the center of mass (CoM) kinematic state, is generally considered a dominant mechanism for maintenance of gait stability. By adequate (mediolateral) positioning of the center of pressure with respect to the CoM, the ground reaction force generates a moment that prevents falling. In healthy individuals, foot placement is complemented mainly by ankle moment control ensuring stability. To evaluate possible compensatory relationships between step-by-step foot placement and complementary ankle moments, we investigated the degree of (active) foot placement control during steady-state walking, and under either foot placement-, or ankle moment constraints. Thirty healthy participants walked on a treadmill, while full-body kinematics, ground reaction forces and EMG activities were recorded. As a replication of earlier findings, we first showed step-by-step foot placement is associated with preceding CoM state and hip ab-/adductor activity during steady-state walking. Tight control of foot placement appears to be important at normal walking speed because there was a limited change in the degree of foot placement control despite the presence of a foot placement constraint. At slow speed, the degree of foot placement control decreased substantially, suggesting that tight control of foot placement is less essential when walking slowly. Step-by-step foot placement control was not tightened to compensate for constrained ankle moments. Instead compensation was achieved through increases in step width and stride frequency.
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