PURPOSE The purpose of our study was to investigate the effect of gait training with rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS) on both kinematic and temporospatial gait patterns in patients with hemiplegia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eighteen hemiplegic patients diagnosed with either cerebral palsy or stroke participated in this study. All participants underwent the 4-week gait training with RAS. The tr...

A simple and rapid automatic method for detection of gait events at the foot could speed up and possibly increase the repeatability of gait analysis and evaluations of treatments for pathological gaits. The aim of this study was to compare and validate a kinematic-based algorithm used in the detection of four gait events, heel contact, heel rise, toe contact and toe off. Force platform data is ...

The relationship between neuromuscular fatigue and locomotion has never been investigated in hemiparetic patients despite the fact that, in the clinical context, patients report to be more spastic or stiffer after walking a long distance or after a rehabilitation session. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of quadriceps muscle fatigue on the biomechanical gait parameters of patie...

Considering that most of the falls in elderly population arise during walking, tests derived from walking performance would be desirable for comprehensive fall risk assessment. The analysis of spatial temporal parameters and the center of pressure displacement, which represents the interaction between the human body and the ground, would be beneficial. The aim of this study was to compare spati...

BACKGROUND Gait analysis and research have been developed to obtain characteristics of movement patterns of people while walking. However, traditional measuring systems present different drawbacks that reduce their use and application. Among those drawbacks one can find: high price, low sampling frequency and limiting number of steps to be analyzed. Traditional measuring gait systems carry out ...

The walking mechanism of a prosthetic leg user is a tightly coordinated movement of several joints and limb segments. The interaction among the voluntary and mechanical joints and segments requires particular biomechanical insight. This study aims to analyze the inter-relationship between amputees' voluntary and mechanical coupled leg joints variables using cyclograms. From this analysis, the c...

Background Several studies indicate that the gait pattern of subjects suffering from scoliosis differs from the norm. However, there is conflicting evidence regarding the source of this discrepancy. Objective To evaluate lower limb asymmetries in selected gait variables. Study design A case-control study on lower limb asymmetries during gait which can be related to scoliosis. Methods 31 s...

In this paper we propose a new method for symmetry calculation in wearable devices. The problem domain is that only discrete features such as stride length, duration, or duration of gait phases are used the calculation. However, can lead to failures, since use result partial loss information from time series. From present possibility calculate by using Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). DTW uses compl...

A walking gait is designed for a planar biped with two identical three-link legs, a trunk and two one-link arms. This ninelink biped is controlled via eight torques to obtain a cyclic gait. The scope of this paper is to investigate the effects of arms swing on the reduction of energy consumption during walking of a fully actuated planar biped robot. Kinematics and dynamics of a biped, HYDROID, ...