The purpose of the present investigation was to examine pedometer accuracy during stair climbing and descending as well as during the performance of a bench stepping exercise. Ten healthy men participated in the present investigation. All subjects ascended and descended an 18 cm high public staircase, and performed a bench stepping exercise by using a 10, 20 and 30 cm high platforms, while wear...

This paper presents a stair-climbing mobile platform built on the Rocker–Bogie mechanism which enables to effectively climb up/down various sizes of stairs in indoor environments without violating its mobile stability. First, the link parameters of Rocker–Bogie mechanism are optimally chosen via the Taguchi method in order to make the trajectory of its center of mass (CM) as smooth as possible,...

Stair-climbing is an important skill for promoting independence and activities of daily life and is a key component of rehabilitation therapies for physically disabled children. This thesis describes the design and evaluation of an interactive musical stairs system for children engaged in stairclimbing physical therapies. The achievement of a targeted therapeutic goal, namely, use of reciprocal...

Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a generally successful surgical procedure to treat end-stage knee osteoarthritis; however, suboptimal outcomes, including difficulty stair climbing, do occur [1]. Clinicians use the stair climbing test (SCT) to track functional status, where a patient ascends and descends a flight of stairs as fast as possible and a faster time suggests better function and incre...

INTRODUCTION K4b2 (COSMED Srl Italy) is a portable device that is considered valid and reliable for measuring oxygen uptake (VO2) and carbon dioxide production (VCO2) under laboratory conditions. OBJECTIVES Evaluate the test-retest reliability of K4b2 during walking, stair climbing and descending stairs under free living conditions. METHODS Twelve participants completed two self-selected co...

Stair climbing has become a popular form of training for athletes as well as non-athletes. Considering that there are a plethora of devices for stair climbing, how does a person decide which apparatus to use? Aside from issues of practicality, much of the decision could be based on the principles of specificity of training. That is, for maximum transfer of benefits from one activity to another,...

Background Stair climbing demands, as compared to walking level, a greater range of motion in the lower extremity accompanied by about six times more load on knee joint [1]. Consequently, pain while climbing stairs is the first complaint in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) [2]. The use of lateral wedge insoles aims to decrease medial knee compartment loading by reducing the peak external ...

OBJECTIVE We performed a literature review with the main aims to propose an updated overview of the effectiveness of stair-use interventions and to determine the most effective type of intervention. METHODS We systematically searched stair-use interventions performed in worksites or public settings, published up to mid 2013. We used a harvest plot approach to visualize the findings in additio...