ArticleGait & posture2022
Overground versus treadmill walking in Parkinson's disease: Relationship between speed and spatiotemporal gait metrics.
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- Gait asymmetry in Parkinson's disease - a systematic review and meta-analysis (AsymmGait-Parkinson study).Scientific reports · 2026Pooled it
- A treadmill training program in a gamified virtual reality environment combined with transcranial direct current stimulation in Parkinson's Disease: Preliminary results of a mixed methods randomized controlled trial.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Trial
- Parkinsonian gait improvement through vibratory stride parameter feedback.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Dual-task effects of walking-speed on inhibitory control and decision-making under risk.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Effects of a treadmill and oculomotor dual-task intervention vs. -nordic walking on balance in Parkinson's disease patients - a pilot study.Clinical parkinsonism & related disorders · 2025Article
- Self-selected speed provides more accurate human gait kinematics and spatiotemporal parameters than overground simulated speed on a treadmill: a cross-sectional study.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Gait patterns during overground and virtual omnidirectional treadmill walking.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Gait Variability at Different Walking Speeds.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2023Article
- Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Adults With Premanifest and Manifest Huntington's Disease: A Systematic Review.Journal of movement disorders · 2023Article
- Acclimatization of force production during walking in persons with Parkinson's disease.Journal of biomechanics · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundTreadmills provide a safe and convenient way to study the gait of people with Parkinson's disease (PD), but outcome measures derived from treadmill gait may differ from overground walking.
objectiveTo investigate how the relationships between gait metrics and walking speed vary between overground and treadmill walking in people with PD and healthy controls.
methodsWe compared 29 healthy controls to 27 people with PD in the OFF-medication state. Subjects first walked overground on an instrumented gait walkway, then on an instrumented treadmill at 85%, 100% and 115% of their overground walking speed. Average stride length and cadence were computed for each subject in both overground and treadmill walking.
resultsStride length and cadence both differed between overground and treadmill walking. Regressions of stride length and cadence on gait speed showed a log-log relationship for both overground and treadmill gait in both PD and control groups. The difference between the PD and control groups during overground gait was maintained for treadmill gait, not only when treadmill speed matched overground speed, but also with ± 15% variation in treadmill speed from that value. SIGNIFICANCE: These results show that the impact of PD on stride length and cadence and their relationship to gait speed is preserved in treadmill as compared to overground walking. We conclude that a treadmill protocol is suitable for laboratory use in studies of PD gait therapeutics.
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