Prosthetics and orthotics research, studies, technologies have been evolving through the years. According to World Health Organization (WHO) data, it is estimated that, globally, 35–40 million people require prosthetics usage in daily life. demand increasing due certain factors. One of factors vascular-related disease, which leads amputation. Prosthetic can increase an amputee’s quality Therefo...

Gait is a behavioural biometric particularly useful for non-intrusive and/or non-cooperative person identification from a distance in unconstrained public spaces. However, such environments also increase the difficulties in gait recognition compared to a more controlled one with constantly known view angle. This is largely because various factors can affect gait including people walking in diff...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of different mandibular positions on the body equilibrium by measuring the gait rhythm. Twelve young healthy subjects volunteered to participate in this study. Subjects were instructed to walk for a 18m distance with the mandible guided at six different positions by occlusal splints. The gait was recorded at fast, ordinary and slow walking...

BACKGROUND Increased inflammatory activity and gait speed decline are common with aging, but the association between the two is not well established. The objective of this study was to determine the influence of inflammatory markers, interleukin-6 (IL-6), and tumor necrosis factor alpha, on gait speed performance and decline in older adults. METHODS We conducted cross-sectional and longitudin...

BACKGROUND A body of literature is emerging regarding gait/balance impairments observed in essential tremor (ET) patients. Although impairment is generally mild, the full extent of the spectrum remains undefined. We present four ET cases with more severe gait/balance impairment. METHODS A BATTERY OF SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE GAIT/BALANCE ASSESSMENTS WAS PERFORMED: the Activities-specific Balan...

Gait patterns of humans and humanoid robots are often described by analysing changes in angular rotation of hip, knee and ankle joints during one gait cycle. Each joint displays specific behaviour and irregularities of the gait pattern could be detected by measuring displacements from the normal rotation curve, while small deviations of individual gait chara...

PURPOSE Hemiplegia is a paralysis on one side of the body resulting from disease or injury to the motor centers of the brain that may lead to difficulty in walking and problems in balance. A new methodology for hemiplegia gait patterns classification based on bicluster analysis, which aims to identify a group of patients with similar gait patterns, and verify if spatial-temporal gait parameters...

BACKGROUND Although gait disturbance is one of the most pronounced and disabling symptoms in cerebellar disease (CD), quantitative studies on this topic are rare. OBJECTIVES To characterise the typical clinical features of cerebellar gait and to analyse ataxia quantitatively. METHODS Twelve patients with various cerebellar disorders were compared with 12 age matched controls. Gait was analy...