Lower limb orthotic intervention is considered as an important element in the rehabilitation of the patients with stroke. Hemiplegic gait are widely used by clinicians to describe a pattern of limb movement and body posture for the patients with stroke. This gait pattern is dangerous to the patients as it is an unstable walking pattern and has a high risk of fall. Application of ankle foot orth...

Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is one of the most effective methods of treatment of severe hip osteoarthritis (HOA). In many cases pathological gait patterns persist despite properly conducted surgery and disturb the normal wear of the artificial joint surfaces. The aim of the study was to conduct functional and biomechanical assessment of gait in a patient after bilateral THA due to severe degen...

PURPOSE With the aim of investigating the spatiotemporal features of early gait pattern and knee kinematics after total knee arthroplasty and analyzing the association between outcomes of gait analyses and knee kinematic parameters, the relationship between walking and dynamic knee deformity at the early period after total knee arthroplasty was assessed in this study. METHODS Eighteen patient...

Introduction Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) causes pain that may lead to posture and movement modifications and arouses muscular imbalance with reduced range of motion in the affected joints. Clinical assessment of the gait is difficult in children, because of the complexity and rapidity of movement. In children with JIA, the gait pattern is further complicated by subtle compensatory gait ...

It is well known that chaos is a central feature of human locomotion (Buzzi et al., 2003; Dingwell et al., 2000). A chaotic gait pattern means that the lower extremity kinematics fluctuate from one step to the next with a deterministic pattern. Historically, fluctuations in the gait pattern were considered to be random noise or error in the output of the nervous system. However, recent investig...

Background: Quadriceps avoidance is a reflex deficit disorder of quadriceps activation after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) that can lead to abnormal gait kinematics. It patient apprehension due pain, prevent induces deforming forces at the joint. Aim: To describe frequency ‘quadriceps avoidance’ among patients arthroplasty. Study Design: Descriptive case series. Methodology: The study sample si...

In this paper, we propose ubiFloorII, a novel floor-based user identification system to recognize humans based on their walking pattern such as stride length, dynamic range, foot angle, and stance and swing time. To obtain users walking pattern from their gait, we deployed photo interrupter sensors instead of switch sensors used in ubiFloorI. We developed a software module to extract walking pa...

The purpose of this study was to compare changes in the gait pattern between the elderly and young during level (i.e., even surface) walking under low illumination. Vision during walking plays a role in avoiding obstacles and uneven surfaces, as well as an important role in the proactive control of dynamic stability and route planning for level walking. Fourteen elderly and fourteen young male ...