The paper discusses results of experiments carried out at healthy individuals with an aim to establish an in-house developed sensor mechanism using ADXL 330 accelerometer. The sensor was developed in view to measure gait phases (heel strike & toe off), gait duration and gait speed. These findings were useful in understanding the range of normal gait though accelerometer and further used for con...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to extract suitable spatiotemporal and kinematic parameters to determine how Total Knee Replacement (TKR) alters patients’ knee kinematics during gait, using a rapid and simplified quantitative two-dimensional gait analysis procedure. Methods: Two-dimensional kinematic gait pattern of 10 participants were collected before and after the TKR surgery,...

General presentation From a modelling perspective, human beings can be thought of as physical objects which interact with physical space in ways that are mediated by forces, masses and inertias, and can be described, to first approximation, by ordinary differential equations. To this extent, human beings can be considered as dynamical systems. A major challenge in fields such as robotics, contr...

Gait dysfunction and falling are major sources of disability for patients with advanced Parkinson's disease (PD). It is presently thought that the fundamental defect is an inability to generate normal stride length. Our data suggest, however, that the basic problem in PD gait is an impaired ability to match step frequency to walking velocity. In this study, foot movements of PD and normal subje...

Human gait recognition is a developing biometric engineering now a days. It perceives the individual from its walk and above all from a distance without subject’s cooperation. As human gait recognition system is influenced by diverse view variations effects. So, in this paper we have proposed a human gait recognition strategy for the images caught from distinctive viewing edges (0, 45, 90 degre...

Gait analysis using wearable sensors is an inexpensive, convenient, and efficient manner of providing useful information for multiple health-related applications. As a clinical tool applied in the rehabilitation and diagnosis of medical conditions and sport activities, gait analysis using wearable sensors shows great prospects. The current paper reviews available wearable sensors and ambulatory...

BACKGROUND With brain aging, cognition and gait deteriorate in several domains. However, the interrelationship between cognitive and gait domains remains unclear. We investigated the independent associations between cognitive and gait domains in a community-dwelling population. METHODS In the Rotterdam Study, 1232 participants underwent cognitive and gait assessment. Cognitive assessment incl...