OBJECTIVE To postulate a new possible cause of a unilaterally reduced arm swing in addition to the known medical conditions such as shoulder pathology, Erb's palsy, stroke, and Parkinson's disease. METHODS Analysis of YouTube videos depicting the gait of highly ranked Russian officials. RESULTS We found a similar walking pattern in President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev an...

Serial casting is frequently prescribed for toe-walking but that does not allow continued physical therapy (PT). This report described a child and family who chose dynamic splinting (DS) with concurrent PT for treatment. The patient presented with right hemiparesis; below average motor skills and a gait pattern of toe contact (without ankle foot orthosis). Four months of PT plus 6 hours/night o...

Template-based approaches using acceleration signals have been proposed for gait-based biometric authentication. In daily life a number of real-world factors affect the users’ gait and we investigate their effects on authentication performance. We analyze the effect of walking speed, different shoes, extra load, and the natural variation over days on the gait. Therefore we introduce a statistic...

We show how the symmetry of motion can be extracted by using the Generalised Symmetry Operator for analysing motion and for gait recognition. This operator, rather than relying on the borders of a shape or on general appearance, locates features by their symmetrical properties. This approach is reinforced by the view from psychology that human gait is a symmetrical pattern of motion, and by oth...

Gait A particular way or manner of moving on foot. Gait recognition is the process of identifying an individual by the manor in which they walk. This is a marker less unobtrusive biometric, which offers the possibility to identify people at a distance, without any interaction or co-operation from the subject, this is the property which makes it so attractive as a method of identification. This ...

This paper describes gait identification using cumulants of accelerometer data. Accelerometer data of three different walking speeds for each subject (normal, slow and fast) was acquired by a cell phone placed on the person’s hip. Data analysis was based on gait cycles that were detected first. Cumulants of order from 1 to 4 with lags from 0 to 10 for second, third and fourth order cumulants we...

In order to realize smooth gait planning and stability control of a quadruped robot, a new controller algorithm based on CPG-ZMP (central pattern generator-zero moment point) is put forward in this paper. To generate smooth gait and shorten the adjusting time of the model oscillation system, a new CPG model controller and its gait switching strategy based on Wilson-Cowan model are presented in ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze gait patterns associated with sadness and depression. Embodiment theories suggest a reciprocal relationship between bodily expression and the way in which emotions are processed. METHODS In Study 1, the gait patterns of 14 inpatients suffering from major depression were compared with those of matched never-depressed participants. In Study 2, we employed musical mood induc...

This study is a non-interventional correlation study. Two groups (n = 40), consisting of 20 LOPD patients and 20 healthy age-matched (HAM), individuals will have their gait patterns assessed by instrumented gait analysis (Qualisys OQUS). The aim of the study is to identify the differences in gait between LOPD patients and HAM individuals. The LOPD group will be recruited from the Mark Holland m...