Abstract-This study obtained measurements of the spatiotemporal gait parameters of healthy young adult Kuwaiti subjects from both genders and compared the data to those collected in a similar study performed in Sweden. Thirty healthy subjects volunteered to participate in the study (which included being asked to walk at their "free," "slow," and "fast" selfselected speeds). We collected the spatiotemporal gait data using an automated system. Descriptive statistics were calculated for each variable measured at each walking condition. The data were then compared to those from the Swedish study. The results indicate several significant differences between Kuwaiti and Swedish subjects in their manner of walking. These results suggest a need to include data from subjects with diverse cultural backgrounds when a database on normal gait is developed or a need to limit the results of the database to a specified ethnic population.
The ETUG scored from a video shows a good reliability for experienced raters and acceptable internal consistency. The ETUG showed a higher reliability than TUG when tested on the same sample of older subjects with impaired mobility, and the high concurrent validity between ETUG and TUG suggests that the two tests may have similar properties. Since ETUG also adds new information compared with TUG, we suggest that ETUG is an interesting alternative to existing clinical tests of mobility.
This article investigates the relative effectiveness in the ways in which physiotherapy exercises are administered to patients with residual stroke. The exercises were designed to improve walking by increasing the ability of the affected limb to bear weight during the single support phase of the gait cycle and, therefore, to increase the duration of this phase, thereby making the gait pattern more symmetrical. Twenty patients were divided into four equal groups, one of which acted as a control, receiving no treatment. The other three groups received ex
Normative trends in the gait patterns of modern man can be used to reconstruct crucial characteristics of the bipedal behaviour of Pliocene hominids from their fossilized footprints. In this reconstruction the interrelated parameters of velocity, stride-length, and cadence are determined from imprints made in damp volcanic ash some 3.7 million years ago. When early hominid footprint data is fitted to regression equations of high predictability for the interrelationship of these locomotor parameters in modern man, a pattern of gait emerges that contradicts previous reconstructions.
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