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Extended Timed Up & Go test: Is walking forward and returning back to the chair equivalent gait?
- Source :
- Journal of Biomechanics. 89:110-114
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- The Timed Up & Go test (TUG) is functional test and is a part of routine clinical examinations. The instrumented Timed Up & Go test enables its segmentation to sub-tasks: sit-to-stand, walking forward, turning, walking back, stand-to-sit, and consequently the computation of task-specific parameters and sub-tasks separately. However, there are no data on whether walking forward parameters differ from the walking back parameters. This study tested the differences between walking forward and walking back in the TUG extended to 10 m for 17 spatio-temporal gait parameters. All parameters were obtained from a GAITRite® pressure sensitive walkway (CIR Systems, Inc.). The differences were assessed for healthy controls and Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. None of investigated parameters exhibited a difference between both gait subtasks for healthy subjects group. Five parameters of interest, namely velocity, step length, stride length, stride velocity, and the proportion of the double support phase with respect to gait cycle duration, showed a statistically significant difference between gait for walking forward and walking back in PD patients. Therefore, we recommend a separate assessment for walking forward and walking back rather than averaging both gaits together.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Computer science
0206 medical engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Biophysics
STRIDE
Double support phase
Walking
02 engineering and technology
03 medical and health sciences
Spatio-Temporal Analysis
0302 clinical medicine
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
medicine
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Aged
Rehabilitation
Significant difference
Healthy subjects
Parkinson Disease
Middle Aged
Gait cycle
020601 biomedical engineering
Gait
Test (assessment)
Case-Control Studies
Gait analysis
Female
Gait Analysis
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00219290
- Volume :
- 89
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Biomechanics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f2ba079772506465aa3ee2c2b24bbeb7