[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation between quadriceps muscle activity and balance and gait in stroke patients. [Subjects and Methods] Fifty-five stroke patients (30 males 25 females; mean age 58.7 years; stroke duration 4.82 months; Korean mini-mental state examination score 26.4) participated in this study. MP100 surface electromyography, BioRescue, and LUKOtron...

INTRODUCTION The correlation between dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) decline and age led to the hypothesis that DHEAS might be a marker of primary aging, though conflicting data from observational studies of mortality do not support this. We evaluated concurrent DHEAS and functional decline in a very old cohort to test if DHEAS change tracks with functional change during aging. METHODS...

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between gait speed and various factors in ambulatory patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease. [Subjects] Fifty ambulatory patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease who were admitted to an outpatient clinic were included in this cross-sectional study. [Methods] The Hoehn and Yahr Scale was used for measurement of the dis...

conclusions based on the findings, in case a child suffers from calf pain or gait disturbances during influenza outbreak, the possibility of bacm should be considered before performing laboratory tests, radiological examinations, or other investigations. introduction identification of the etiology of limping and gait disturbances in children necessitates accurate physical examination and histor...

Complex gait analysis systems are not generally available worldwide, and no simple system of assessing gait by observation has been validated specifically for use in patients with cerebral palsy. The authors have developed a visual gait analysis score for use in cerebral palsy. Videotaped sequences of patients were recorded before and after surgery as part of a three-dimensional gait study usin...

Monitoring the activity of broilers is a potential way for determining gait score level at commercial farms. In this study, a fully-automatic monitoring technique was developed to measure the activity of broiler chickens with different gait score levels. We carried out experiments in order to assess the relationship between gait scores obtained by human experts and activity levels quantified by...

A 37-year-old man presented with progressive gait ataxia for 2 weeks. He also complained of right neck tumefaction and general malaise for 1 month. His prior medical history included hypertension, depression, polysubstance abuse, and 1 year of mild short-term memory complaints. His Mini-Mental State Examination score was 26/30; he had mild left hemiparesis, and ataxia of the limbs, trunk, and g...

OBJECTIVES To investigate dual-task performance of gait and cognition in cognitively healthy and cognitively impaired older adults using a motor-cognition dual-task paradigm. DESIGN Cross-sectional retrospective study. SETTING The Basel Memory Clinic and the Basel Study on the Elderly (Project BASEL). PARTICIPANTS Seven hundred eleven older adults (mean age 77.2±6.2, 350 (49.2%) female an...

This paper describes a method of gait recognition by suppressing and using gait fluctuations. Inconsistent phasing between a matching pair of gait image sequences because of temporal fluctuations degrades the performance of gait recognition. We remove the temporal fluctuations by generating a phase-normalized gait image sequence with equal phase intervals. If inter-period gait fluctuations with...