ArticleJournal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation2021
Meaningful measurements of maneuvers: People with incomplete spinal cord injury 'step up' to the challenges of altered stability requirements.
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- Comparative efficacy of robotic exoskeleton and conventional gait training in patients with spinal cord injury: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025Pooled it
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- Gait pattern stratification in persons with incomplete spinal cord injury: a data-driven approach.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Probability of lateral instability while walking on winding paths.Journal of biomechanics · 2024Article
- Amplify Gait to Improve Locomotor Engagement in Spinal Cord Injury (AGILE SCI) trial: study protocol for an assessor blinded randomized controlled trial.BMC neurology · 2024Article
- Control of center of mass motion during walking correlates with gait and balance in people with incomplete spinal cord injury.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Impaired foot placement strategy during walking in people with incomplete spinal cord injury.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Adaptive multi-objective control explains how humans make lateral maneuvers while walking.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Step-to-step variability indicates disruption to balance control when linking the arms and legs during treadmill walking.PloS one · 2022Article
- Stabilization Strategies for Fast Walking in Challenging Environments With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundMany people with incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) have the ability to maneuver while walking. However, neuromuscular impairments create challenges to maintain stability. How people with iSCI maintain stability during walking maneuvers is poorly understood. Thus, this study compares maneuver performance in varying external conditions between persons with and without iSCI to better understand maneuver stabilization strategies in people with iSCI.
methodsParticipants with and without iSCI walked on a wide treadmill and were prompted to perform lateral maneuvers between bouts of straight walking. Lateral force fields applied to the participants' center of mass amplified or attenuated the participants' movements, thereby increasing the capability of the study to capture behavior at varied levels of challenge to stability.
resultsBy examining metrics of stability, step width, and center of mass dynamics, distinct strategies emerged following iSCI. The minimum margin of stability (MOS
conclusionsThe different force fields were successful in identifying relatively subtle strategy differences between persons with and without iSCI. Specifically, persons with iSCI adopted increased step width and reduction in center of mass excursion to increase maneuver stability in the amplified field. The amplified field may provoke practice of stable and efficient initiation and arrest of walking maneuvers. Overall, this work allows better framing of the stability mechanisms used following iSCI to perform walking maneuvers.
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