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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ryan J. Downey, Natalie Richer, Rohan Gupta, Chang Liu, Erika M. Pliner, Arkaprava Roy, Jungyun Hwang, David J. Clark, Chris J. Hass, Todd M. Manini, Rachael D. Seidler, Daniel P. Ferris
Summary: This study investigated the effects of altering terrain unevenness on gait kinematics, and found that increasing terrain unevenness led to greater stride-to-stride variability and reduced perceived stability in participants.
Review
Neurosciences
Marie B. Semaan, Laura Wallard, Valentin Ruiz, Christophe Gillet, Sebastien Leteneur, Emilie Simoneau-Buessinger
Summary: This study compared the effects of treadmill and overground walking on biomechanical, electromyographical, and energy consumption outcomes. The results showed that most outcome measures were comparable between the two conditions. However, there were differences in kinematic, kinetic, and electromyographic parameters, which should be considered by clinicians, trainers, and researchers when designing protocols.
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Biophysics
Pawel R. Golyski, Esmeralda Vazquez, Jennifer K. Leestma, Gregory S. Sawicki
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the effects of different onset timings on stability during walking, showing that later onset timings elicited more stabilizing responses, including larger step lengths and widths, greater anteroposterior margins of stability, as well as shorter step lengths and wider step widths.
JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Tyler Fettrow, Kathleen Hupfeld, Hendrik Reimann, Julia Choi, Chris Hass, Rachael Seidler
Summary: The study focuses on how younger and older adults adapt their medial-lateral control of balance during split-belt treadmill walking. Younger adults showed sustained asymmetric changes in ML balance parameters, potentially exploiting passive dynamics for more efficiency, while older adults displayed more concern for maintaining stable gait.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Margit M. Bach, Andreas Daffertshofer, Nadia Dominici
Summary: The study found that toddlers and preschoolers learning to run tend to utilize a walk-run strategy, with an increase in the number of muscle synergies compared to school-age children and adults. Surprisingly, different age groups did not differ significantly in the timing or duration of synergies.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Physiology
Ronald Verch, Josephine Stoll, Miralem Hadzic, Andrew Quarmby, Heinz Voeller
Summary: The study compared exercise intensity between WB-EMS-superimposed and conventional walking/Nordic walking. Results showed that WB-EMS influences exercise intensity parameters, but the impact on exercise intensity and clinical relevance remains uncertain due to marginal differences in outcome variables.
FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Noelle A. Jacobsen, Daniel P. Ferris
Summary: Mobile brain imaging technology has revealed that multiple brain areas, including the sensorimotor and posterior parietal cortices, are involved in gait adaptation during human walking. The alpha and beta band power in these brain areas decreases during early adaptation to split-belt walking, but gradually recovers to pre-adaptation levels by the end of the adaptation period. These findings provide important insights for future studies on gait adaptation and its disorders.
JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON
(2023)
Review
Rehabilitation
Jie Hao, Thad W. Buster, Guilherme M. Cesar, Judith M. Burnfield
Summary: The combination of virtual reality and treadmill training has significant benefits for patients with walking and balance impairments, improving walking speed, step length, step width, single leg stance period, functional mobility, balance function, and balance confidence.
CLINICAL REHABILITATION
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Jacqueline Nestico, Alison Novak, Stephen D. Perry, Avril Mansfield
Summary: The study found that long-term step width variability significantly increased before an expected perturbation, but this did not have a significant impact on stability, suggesting that participants adopted an exploratory strategy. The results did not confirm a relationship between gait variability and stability.
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Neurosciences
Celine Guilleron, Wael Maktouf, Bruno Beaune, Samir Henni, Pierre Abraham, Sylvain Durand
Summary: In patients with unilateral peripheral arterial disease-induced intermittent claudication, reducing pain during walking alters the coactivation pattern. The symptomatic leg is more likely to show increased coactivation compared to the asymptomatic leg, indicating a compensatory mechanism in walking for patients with peripheral arterial disease.
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Neurosciences
Margo C. Donlin, Kayla M. Pariser, Kaitlyn E. Downer, Jill S. Higginson
Summary: The study examines the variability of spatiotemporal and propulsive gait variables during adaptive treadmill walking and compares them to fixed-speed treadmill walking. It finds that propulsion has stronger persistence in the adaptive condition and there are differences between adaptive and fixed-speed modes.
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Zeng Wang, Xiancheng Wang, Ruidong Li
Summary: This study focuses on the physiological effects of the mechanical properties of treadmill decks on runners. By improving the human motion model and using the particle swarm optimization algorithm, the results show that the hardness of the treadmill deck can affect muscle activity, providing references for the design of treadmill deck parameters.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2023)
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Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Mingi Jung, Seungbum Koo
Summary: This study analyzes the gait differences caused by the physical factors of treadmill walking. The results show that the lower-limb joint kinematics are the same under ideal treadmill conditions, regardless of body mass and walking speed. However, kinematic differences are observed under non-ideal treadmill conditions.
FRONTIERS IN BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Klaudia Kozlowska, Miroslaw Latka, Bruce J. West
Summary: The study investigated the effects of random changes in treadmill belt speed on the trend properties and scaling exponents of stride time and length. The results showed modifications in trend duration, Cauchy distribution scale parameter, and ST/SL scaling indices due to perturbations in belt speed, leading to weak persistence/antipersistence of ST/SL time series. The presence of strongly anti-persistent fluctuations about gentle, persistent trends at normal and moderate treadmill speeds highlights the complex dynamics of treadmill gait.
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Medicine, General & Internal
Wonjae Choi
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the effects of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) on physical function, proprioception, muscle strength, postural balance, and walking in older women. The results showed that participants in the TKA group had significantly reduced physical function, postural balance, and walking ability compared with those in the non TKA group. Physical function in the TKA group was correlated with proprioception, postural balance, and walking, while postural balance in the non TKA group was associated with muscle strength and walking.