One-year persistence of individual gait patterns identified in a follow-up study – A call for individualised diagnose and therapy

• Published in: Gait & posture Vol. 58; no. NA; pp. 476 - 480
• Main Authors: Horst, F., Mildner, M., Schöllhorn, W.I.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier B.V 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Adult; Biological Variation, Population - physiology; Biomechanical Phenomena; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Gait; Gait - physiology; Healthy Volunteers; Humans; Individual gait patterns; Inter-subject variability; Male; Support vector machines; Uniqueness; Support vector machines; Gait; Individual gait patterns; Inter-subject variability; Uniqueness

•Unique individual gait patterns identified within a sample of 128 participants.•Individuality of gait patterns is similar to other biometrics like fingerprints.•Individual gait characteristics were persistent over a period of months/years.•Inter-Individual differences may explain most of the variab...