A shoe sole-based apparatus and method for randomly perturbing the stance phase of gait: Test–retest reliability in young adults

• Published in: Journal of biomechanics Vol. 45; no. 10; pp. 1850 - 1853
• Main Authors: Kim, Hogene, Ashton-Miller, James A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 26.06.2012; Elsevier; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Accidental Falls - prevention & control; Adult; Application programming interface; Biological and medical sciences; Biomechanical Phenomena; Confidence intervals; Female; Foot - physiology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gait; Gait - physiology; Humans; Male; Models, Biological; Perturbation; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Response; Shoes; Step kinematics; Studies; Underfoot; Vertebrates: body movement. Posture. Locomotion. Flight. Swimming. Physical exercise. Rest. Sports; Walking; Walking - physiology; Response; Step kinematics; Perturbation; Gait; Underfoot; Human; Exploration; Method; Shoe; Biomechanics; Sole; Young adult; Kinematics; Reliability; Biomedical engineering

Walking on an irregular surface is associated with an elevated risk for a fall at any age. Yet, relatively little is known about how a human responds to an unexpected underfoot perturbation during gait. This is partly due to the difficulty of generating an intermittent but repeatable, unexpected, un...