ArticleJournal of pain research2021
Changes in Trunk Variability and Stability of Gait in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain: Impact of Laboratory versus Daily-Living Environments.
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- The Use of Sensors to Prevent, Predict Transition to Chronic and Personalize Treatment of Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Pooled it
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- Use of pain neuroscience education, balance evaluation, and exercise for treating chronic pain with kinesiophobia: a narrative review with clinical recommendations.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Design and Evaluation of a Pneumatic-Actuated Active Balance Board for Sitting Postural Control.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Associations Between Fear-Avoidance or Pain Catastrophizing and Gait Quality in Chronic Low Back Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study.Physical therapy · 2025Article
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- Bidirectional mediation of bone mineral density and brain atrophy on their associations with gait variability.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Association between functional disability with postural balance among patients with chronic low back pain.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Associations between gait performance and pain intensity, psychosocial factors, executive functions as well as prefrontal cortex activity in chronic low back pain patients: A cross-sectional fNIRS study.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Concurrent validity of DorsaVi wireless motion sensor system Version 6 and the Vicon motion analysis system during lifting.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2022Article
- Association between Abnormal Gait Patterns and an Elevated Degree of Pain after Daily Walking: A Preliminary Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Are Morphometric and Biomechanical Characteristics of Lumbar Multifidus Related to Pain Intensity or Disability in People With Chronic Low Back Pain After Considering Psychological Factors or Insomnia?Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundIndividuals with chronic low back pain (CLBP) experience changes in gait control due to pain and/or fear. Although CLBP patients' gait has been performed in laboratory environments, changes in gait control as an adaptation to unstructured daily living environments may be more pronounced than the corresponding changes in laboratory environments. We investigated the impacts of the environment and pathology on the trunk variability and stability of gait in CLBP patients.
methodsCLBP patients (n=20) and healthy controls with no low-back pain history (n=20) were tasked with walking in a laboratory or daily-living environment while wearing an accelerometer on the low back. We calculated the stride-to-stride standard deviation and multiscale sample entropy as indices of "gait variability" and the maximum Lyapunov exponent as an index of "gait stability" in both the anterior-posterior and medial-lateral directions. The participants were assessed on the numerical rating scale for pain intensity, the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia, and the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire for quality of life (QOL).
resultsIn a repeated-measures ANOVA, the standard deviation was affected by environment in the anterior-posterior direction and by group and environment in the medial-lateral direction. Multiscale sample entropy showed no effect in the anterior-posterior direction and showed both effects in the medial-lateral direction. Maximum Lyapunov exponents showed both effects in the anterior-posterior direction, but none in the medial-lateral direction. These changes of trunk motor control by CLBP patients were found to be related to pain intensity, fear of movement, and/or QOL in the daily-living environment but not in the laboratory environment.
conclusionThese results revealed that CLBP patients exhibit changes in trunk variability and stability of gait depending on the environment, and they demonstrated that these changes are related to pain, fear, and QOL. We propose useful accelerometer-based assessments of qualitative gait in CLBP patients' daily lives, as it would provide information not available in a general practice setting.
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