Evaluation of age-related differences in the stride-to-stride fluctuations, regularity and symmetry of gait using a waist-mounted tri-axial accelerometer

The effect of aging on gait parameters in able-bodied older subjects: a literature review

“…Kobayashi H et al and Kobsar D et al in 2014 evaluated to compare the stride-tostride fluctuations and symmetry of gait using an accelerometer in a group of healthy young and healthy older adults. They reported significantly less regularity (p \ 0.05) and symmetry (p \ 0.05) of gait [32,35], while main finding of the study of Patterson et al was that gait symmetry ratios are not significantly associated with age in a healthy elderly population [36].…”

“…Increase of the mean of step time has been reported in older subjects by five studies [21,27,30,32,33]. These studies reported older subjects preferred increased step time to preserve their balance as a compensatory strategy.…”

A Review of Selected Factors Affecting Gait Symmetry

“…Contrary to study results of nonsignificant effect over a continuous age range [4,24,48], some studies with significant effects [36,37] compared two different age groups. Meanwhile, Himann et al showed that gait function remains unchanged until the age of 60, which then varies greatly [58].…”

“…However, studies have reported different results. Although several studies have shown that age is not effective on gait symmetry [4,6,24,48], recent studies have reported otherwise, which seems to differ in the age distribution of subjects [20,36,37].…”

Validation of temporal gait metrics from three IMU locations to the gold standard force plate

“…Alternatively, Moe-Nilssen & Helbostad [11], showed that an unbiased autocorrelation coefficient could be used to detect step and stride times as well as regularity and symmetry metrics. Many subsequent studies have used this method as well [12][13][14].…”