Gait termination: a review of experimental methods and the effects of ageing and gait pathologies

Video capture of the circumstances of falls in elderly people residing in long-term care: an observational study

“…15 falls occurred while tripping on level ground during walking, about a third of which seemed to have resulted from incorrect termination of gait. 15 Falls caused by hit or bump occurred most often while the participant was standing quietly. Falls caused by collapse or loss of consciousness occurred most often during forward walking, whereas those attributable to loss of support with an external object occurred most often during sitting down or lowering and getting up or rising (table 6).…”

Rapid gait termination: Effects of age, walking surfaces and footwear characteristics

“…A total stop was assumed when the AP velocity of the pelvis marker reached less than 0.05 m s À1 [2,15]. The following temporo-spatial variables were then calculated: time to last foot contact (s; time from the stopping cue to final foot contact [12,16]), stopping distance (mm; AP distance between the right heel marker at stopping cue and the lead heel marker at final contact), total stopping time (s; time from the stopping cue to total stop), step length post-cue (% step length pre-cue), step width post-cue (% step width pre-cue), base of support (BOS) length at total stop (mm; AP distance between the trailing heel marker and the leading toe marker at total stop) and stopping response (number of steps taken between the stopping cue and the last foot contact [12]). …”

Influence of Experience on Postural Control: Effect of Expertise in Gymnastics

“…Affordances in postural control depend on constraints defined by the environment, the task, and the organism's properties (Bardy, Marin, Stoffregen, & Bootsma, 1999;. With regard to these three types of constraint, researchers have addressed the question of how the organism's properties influence postural control by studying the effects of biomechanical parameters (Bardy et al) and aging or pathologies (Bronstein & Guerraz, 1999;Horak, 2006;Sparrow & Tirosh, 2005). Researchers have also explored the question from a developmental perspective (Lejeune et al, 2006) and by the investigation of the intense motor experience created, for example, by sports practice.…”