Nervous networks in the spinal marrow are capable to produce rhythmic movements, such as: swimming, jumping, and walking. These specialised nervous systems are known as central pattern generators (CPGs). Nonlinear oscillators can be used in control systems of locomotion as pattern generators similar to the pattern of human gait, providing the approach trajectories of the legs. The objective of ...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present paper is to assess the gait pattern of patients with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD). A more specific aim is to compare the gait pattern of PAD patients before and after the appearance of intermittent claudication symptoms. METHODS The study involved 34 PAD patients with a claudication distance ≥200 m and 20 participants without PAD, who formed the control gr...

Background Non-specific chronic low back pain (NCLBP) is a major public health and global socioeconomic burden with a variety of symptoms such as gait abnormality. Trunk stiffness and deep trunk muscles dysfunction known as guarding mechanism in gait are factors leading to abnormal movement pattern of the spine. Anterior load carriage task during gait is also challenged the trunk stability and ...

Numerous researchers have investigated the correlation between body parameters (height, weight, etc) and human gait pattern by observing the gait patterns of subjects [1]. Typically, their analysis methods follow the subsequent process: first, extraction of several gait parameters (step length, gait period, etc) from the subjects’ gait motions; second, determination of correlation between one o...

PURPOSE One of the aims of the treatment in ambulant cerebral palsy (CP) patients is improvement of gait. The level of gait pathology is assessed by instrumented gait analysis, including surface electromyography. The aim of this study was to investigate the relation of the abnormality level of the gait and the co-contraction of the agonist-antagonist muscles, and relation between symmetry left ...

Equinus deformity of the foot is a common feature of hemiplegia, which impairs the gait pattern of patients. The aim of the present study was to explore the role of ankle-foot deformity in gait impairment. A hierarchical cluster analysis was used to classify the gait patterns of 49 chronic hemiplegic patients with equinus deformity of the foot, based on temporal-distance parameters and joint ki...