ArticleClinical biomechanics (Bristol, Avon)2024
Turning speed as a more responsive metric of age-related decline in mobility: A comparative study with gait speed.
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- Laboratory-based turning performance during walking in people with mild cognitive impairment and dementia.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2026Article
- Timed 360° turn test in people with Alzheimer's disease: a reliability and validity study.Irish journal of medical science · 2026Article
- Continuous assessment of daily-living gait using self-supervised learning of wrist-worn accelerometer data.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Turning Slowly Predicts Future Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease: A Decade-Long Longitudinal Analysis.Annals of neurology · 2026Article
- Smartphone-Based Analysis for Early Detection of Aging Impact on Gait and Stair Negotiation: A Cross-Sectional Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Mobility Abilities Mediate the Association of a More Active Lifestyle With Mobility Disability in Older Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024Article
- Studying turn performance, trunk control, and mobility in acute stroke subjects: a cross-sectional study.PeerJ · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundNavigating your environment requires both straight-line gait as well as turning. Gait speed normative values are well established and utilized in determining a person's functional status, however, it has limitations. This study sought to examine whether turning speed declines with age and how it compared to gait speed age-related decline.
methodsA secondary analysis was performed on 275 community dwelling adults between the ages of 18-88 that performed a timed walking test with an inertial measurement unit on their lumbar spine. Turning speed and walking speed were extracted for each participant. A series of mixed models were compared, and Akaike's Information Criterion was used to determine the best fit model between age and turning speed and age and gait speed.
findingsTurning speed and gait speed normative values were reported for each age decade. A linear model with a random intercept of "Condition" was used to assess the relationship between age and turning speed. The results indicated a significant negative relationship between age and turning speed (B = -0.66, p < 0.001). A spline-fit model determined a significant negative relationship between age and gait speed after the age of 65 (B = -0.0097, p = 0.002). The effect of age on gait speed before age 65 was not significant.
interpretationTurning speed significantly declines with age in a linear fashion while gait speed begins to decline after age 65. Turning speed may be more responsive to age than gait speed. More research is needed to determine if the decline in turning speed with age is associated with a decline in function.
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