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Cathy Harro, Gordon Alderink, Lauren Hickox, David W. Zeitler, Michele Avery, Courtney Daman and Dori Laker
The key findings of this project suggest biomechanical metrics that may be useful in screening individuals with Parkinson?s disease for loss of dynamic balance while walking.
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Daewook Lee, Jiman Soon, Gyuri Choi, Kijoon Kim and Sangwoo Bahn
Walking patterns can be used as a key parameter in identifying individuals, as it varies visually depending on one?s body size as well as their habits, gender, and age group. In this study, we measure the gait characteristics of a large number of subject...
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Wafaa Salem Almuhammadi, Emmanuel Agu, Jean King and Patricia Franklin
Joint pain is a prominent symptom of Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis (OA), impairing patients? movements and affecting the joint mechanics of walking. Self-report questionnaires are currently the gold standard for Hip OA and Knee OA pain assessment, presenti...
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Ibsa K. Jalata, Thanh-Dat Truong, Jessica L. Allen, Han-Seok Seo and Khoa Luu
Using optical motion capture and wearable sensors is a common way to analyze impaired movement in individuals with neurological and musculoskeletal disorders. However, using optical motion sensors and wearable sensors is expensive and often requires high...
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Andrius Apsega, Liudvikas Petrauskas, Vidmantas Alekna, Kristina Daunoraviciene, Viktorija Sevcenko, Asta Mastaviciute, Dovydas Vitkus, Marija Tamulaitiene and Julius Griskevicius
Background and objectives: One of the greatest challenges facing the healthcare of the aging population is frailty. There is growing scientific evidence that gait assessment using wearable sensors could be used for prefrailty and frailty screening. The p...
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Amine Hamza, Lucas Martinez, Riccardo Sacco, Thomas Amouyel, Eric Held, Julien Beldame, Fabien Billuart and Matthieu Lalevée
Background: Isolated gastrocnemius tightness (IGT) is a prevalent condition linked to various foot pathologies. In a previous quantitative gait analysis study, we identified an increase in knee flexion during the midstance phase in IGT patients compared ...
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Hee-Yong Park, Oh-Yun Kwon, Chung-Hwi Yi, Hye-Seon Jeon, Woochol Joseph Choi, So-Young Ahn and Ui-Jae Hwang
Pulmonary complications are frequent in stroke, contributing to both mortality and morbidity rates. Respiratory parameters in such patients encompass both pulmonary function and respiratory muscle strength. Identifying respiratory function variables that...
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Dorota Rózanska-Perlinska, Jaroslaw Jaszczur-Nowicki, Dariusz Kruczkowski and Joanna Magdalena Bukowska
Background: Dental malocclusion is an increasingly frequent stomatognathic disorder in children and adolescents nowadays. The purpose of this study was to confirm or deny the correlations between body posture and malocclusion. Methods: In the study, gait...
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Hadeel Alsirhani, Graham Arnold and Weijie Wang
Background: While cross-legged-sitting (CLS) posture is widely practised in some communities, its biomechanical effect on the lower limbs is not clear. This study aimed to investigate whether CLS would affect biomechanical parameters in lower limbs durin...
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Van-Thuc Tran, Kota Sasaki and Shin-ichiroh Yamamoto
In recent years, the Body Weight Support system has been considered to be an indispensable component in gait training systems, which be used to improve the ability to walk of hemiplegic, stroke, and spinal cord injury patients. Previous studies investiga...
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Agnieszka Szpala, Slawomir Winiarski, Malgorzata Kolodziej, Bogdan Pietraszewski, Ryszard Jasinski, Tadeusz Niebudek, Andrzej Lejczak, Karolina Lorek, Jacek Balchanowski, Slawomir Wudarczyk and Marek Wozniewski
This investigation aimed to scrutinise the kinematic and spatio-temporal characteristics of free and Nordic walking (NW) in older adults, utilising both traditional and biosensor-integrated mechatronic poles. The hypothesis was that including biosensors ...
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Ivan Miguel Pires, Eurico Lopes, María Vanessa Villasana, Nuno M. Garcia, Eftim Zdravevski and Vasco Ponciano
The wide-spread use of wearables and the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm provide an opportunity to use mobile-device sensors for medical applications. Sensors available in the commonly used devices may inspire innovative solutions for p...
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Nazia Ejaz, Saad Jawaid Khan, Fahad Azim, Mehwish Faiz, Emil Teu?an, Alin Ple?a, Alexandru Ianosi-Andreeva-Dimitrova and Sergiu-Dan Stan
Fragility fractures, caused by low-energy trauma, are a significant global health concern, with 158 million people aged 50 and over at risk. Hip fractures, a common issue in elderly patients, are often linked to underlying conditions such as osteoporosis...
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Hassan Sadeghi, Seyed Sadredin Shojaedin, Ali Abbasi, Elham Alijanpour, Marcus Fraga Vieira, Zdenek Svoboda and Kianoush Nazarpour
Falling is one of the most common causes of hip fracture and death in older adults. A comparison of the biomechanics of the gait in fallers and non-fallers older adults, especially joint coordination and coordination variability, enables the understandin...
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Bo Xu, Mingyu Jiao, Xianku Zhang and Dalong Zhang
This paper considers the tracking control of curved paths for an underwater snake robot, and investigates the methods used to improve energy efficiency. Combined with the path-planning method based on PCSI (parametric cubic-spline interpolation), an impr...
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Rahul Soangra, Michael Shiraishi, Richard Beuttler, Michelle Gwerder, LouAnne Boyd, Venkatesan Muthukumar, Mohamed Trabia, Afshin Aminian and Marybeth Grant-Beuttler
Children that are diagnosed with Idiopathic Toe walking (cITW) are characterized by persistent toe-to-toe contacts. The objective of this study was to explore whether typical foot contact dynamics during walking predisposes cITW to a higher risk of falli...
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J. Diego Mendoza-Gámez,David Asael Gutierrez-Hernandez,Irving Rico-Restrepo,Raúl Santiago-Montero,Víctor M. Zamudio,Josué Del Valle-Hernández,Miguel Gómez-Díaz,Jackeline Granados-Ruiz
The analysis of the human gait is of great importance for the diagnosis and the choice of the type of treatment that the patient must obtain. In this work, we report a proposal of the capture of the movement and an interpretation of the signal obtained b...
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Yi Liu, Honglei An, Hongxu Ma and Qing Wei
Intelligent lower-limb prostheses aims to make amputees walk more comfortably and symmetrically which requires the dynamic altering of gait parameters such as walking speed. Some solutions have been proposed such as direct integration and machine learnin...
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Chae-Won Kwon, Seong-Ho Yun, Dong-Kyun Koo and Jung-Won Kwon
Purpose: Gait termination (GT) is the transition from steady-state walking to a complete stop, occurring under planned gait termination (PGT) or unplanned gait termination (UGT) conditions. This study aimed to investigate the biomechanical differences be...
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Chiara Bedon
Knowledge of body motion features and walk-induced effects is of primary importance for the vibration analysis of structures, especially low-frequency slabs and lightweight and/or slender systems, as well as for clinical applications. Structurally speaki...
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