OBJECTIVE To verify if sleep disorders and different starting time to school have impaired motor skills in 5-year-old children. METHOD Cross-sectional design consisting of 132 children with sleep disorders and 136 normal controls of the public school in the city of São Paulo. The group with sleep disorders was identified based on a questionnaire, and motor tests for global motor coordination,...

Gait and Balance Scale (GABS) consists of historical information and examination of 14 different gait and balance parameters designed to assess the severity of these functional domains. Thirty-five patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), Hoehn and Yahr stages 1-3, were tested during their "off" period. GABS items were compared to quantitative data from two computerized gait analysis instruments...

INTRODUCTION/PURPOSE To examine the concurrent validity, and sensitivity, of an inertial sensor for use in the assessment of postural sway. METHODS This was a laboratory-based, repeated-measures design with ten healthy participants. Concurrent validity was tested between an inertial sensor, forceplate, and rigid-body kinematics across three commonly used balance tests. Further, the inertial s...

PURPOSE To determine the relationship between total body and trunk fat mass and gait performance in postmenopausal women. METHODS Thirty-nine postmenopausal women aged 50 years or more were studied. The following items were determined: weight and height to calculate body mass index (BMI), body composition using the technique of Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA), and gait using baropodome...

s of the 17th Annual Meeting of ESMAC, Oral Presentations / Gait & Posture 28S (2008) S1–S48 S43 Discussion: It is shown that the energy requirement for balance control can be substantial. The average increase of 0.86W/kg in tandem stance with eyes closed, is equivalent to a 17% increase in oxygen consumption during walking, which is a common increase for pathological gait [1] The relation betw...