ArticleAging clinical and experimental research2023
Effects of muscular and mental fatigue on spatiotemporal gait parameters in dual task walking in young, non-frail and frail older adults.
Article in Aging clinical and experimental research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04806022 (Effects of Different Forms of Fatigue on Double-Task Performance in the Elderly), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers.
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Effects of Different Forms of Fatigue on Double-Task Performance in the Elderly
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- Highlighting the Role of Mental Fatigue as a Health Risk Factor: A Narrative Review.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The impact of mental fatigue on the risk of non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injury during sharp stop-jump maneuver in male college students.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- The effect of exercise-induced muscle fatigue on gait parameters among older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundDual-task (DT) walking is of great interest in clinical evaluation to evaluate frailty or cognitive declines in older adults. Frail older adults are known to adopt different walking strategy to overcome fatigue. However, no studies evaluated the effect of muscular or mental fatigue on dual-task walking strategy and the difference between frail and non-frail older adults.
aimsEvaluate the effect of mental and muscular fatigue on spatio-temporal parameters in dual-task walking in young, non-frail and frail older adults.
methods59 participants divided into 20 young (Y) (24.9 ± 3 years old), 20 non-frail (NF) (75.8 ± 4.9 years old) and 19 frail older adults (F) (81 ± 4.7 years old) performed single-task (ST) walking, single-task cognitive (serial subtraction of 3), and dual-task (subtraction + walking) for 1 min at their fast pace. Gait speed, step length, step length variability, stance and swing phase time, single and double support time, cadence, gait speed variability were recorded in single- and dual-task walking. The dual-task effect (DTE) was calculated as ((DT - ST)/ST) × 100). Generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) were used to compare the effects of mental and muscular fatigue on gait and cognitive variables between the groups.
resultsThe DTE walking parameters were worse in F compared to NF or Y but no significant effect of fatigue were highlighted except for swing time and single support time DTEs.
conclusionsThe results were mitigated but a clear difference in dual-task spatio-temporal parameters was found between F and NF which brings hope into the capacity of DT to better reveal frailty.
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