Older Adult Gait Studies Rarely Define What Healthy Actually Means
A scoping review of 161 older adult gait studies revealed that 77 percent lacked an explicit operational definition of health ...
Tag: gait analysis
Biomechanical Criteria Identified for Diagnosing Stiff-Knee Gait in Stroke Survivors
Researchers have identified two primary kinematic criteria—peak swing flexion under 40 degrees and swing range under 12 degrees—to reliably classify ...
Smartphone Gait Analysis App Validated Against Pressure Walkway in Healthy Adults
A validation study in healthy adults found that the smartphone video application Gaitly achieved low absolute error and high reliability ...
One sleepless night leaves a machine-readable fingerprint in a runner’s gait
A single night of total sleep deprivation left a machine-detectable fingerprint in runners' gait that a trunk-mounted wearable sensor identified ...
Age Simulation Suit Slows Young Walkers but Spares Memory Under Dual Tasks
An age simulation suit slowed healthy young adults' walking to near-older patterns while leaving their word memory unaffected under dual-task ...
Dual-task walking reveals gait changes tied to cognitive impairment in small vessel disease
A meta-analysis of nine studies found that patients with cerebral small vessel disease-related cognitive impairment walked more slowly and less ...
Early Spinal Muscle Loss Emerges as Hidden Driver of Muscular Dystrophy
MRI studies of patients and dysferlinopathic mice reveal early fatty degeneration of spinal muscles driven by adipogenic progenitors, with GSK3 ...
Walking a little faster changes many muscles at once, but not the forces beneath your feet
A new integrated gait-analysis framework found that a modest speed increase produced widespread multi-muscle electromyography changes in healthy young adults ...
Force-Plate AI Flags Abnormal Walking Patterns in a Fraction of a Second
A compact hybrid machine-learning model called GaitScreen uses ground reaction force recordings to flag pathological gait trials for clinical review ...
Machine learning maps two decades of knee osteoarthritis biomechanics research
A bibliometric and machine-learning analysis of 3,110 publications shows knee osteoarthritis biomechanics research shifting from gait analysis toward mechanobiology, regenerative ...
Oreejoy wins Boeing BUILD grant for AI-powered mobility wearable
IIT Gandhinagar startup Oreejoy received a ₹10 lakh Boeing BUILD grant for a pressure-sensing, AI-powered insole designed to analyse walking ...
Personalized Foot Models Improve Walking Simulation Accuracy
A new study shows that personalized foot-ground contact models significantly improve the accuracy of predictive walking simulations compared to generic ...
Scientists Replace Peak Pressure With Predictive Force Model for Personalized Orthoses
A new device-independent model predicts the plantar force field of any individual from body mass, walking speed, and foot length, ...
AI Cameras Catch Parkinson-Like Gait Changes When Dementia Drugs Are Cut
A vision-based machine learning study of 61 dementia care residents found that ceiling-mounted cameras and gait analysis could detect gait ...
Wearable Sensors and AI Are Rewriting How Parkinson’s Disease Is Measured, Landmark Study Finds
A bibliometric analysis of 3,332 publications shows wearable sensor research in Parkinson's disease has grown exponentially since 2019, shifting from ...
Battery-Free Smart Shoe Uses Footstep Energy and AI to Track How You Walk
Rutgers engineers have built a self-powered smart shoe that harvests energy from each footstep and uses onboard artificial intelligence to ...
Walking Isn’t Always Rhythmic: Slow Gait Switches to a Discrete Control Mode, Study Finds
A new iScience study shows that human walking shifts between discrete and rhythmic control regimes as speed changes, with converging ...
Magnetic Pulses to the Brain Ease Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease
A new study shows that ten sessions of high-frequency magnetic stimulation targeting the primary motor cortex improved freezing of gait ...
Nighttime Stiffness May Quietly Steal Daytime Mobility in Parkinson’s Disease
A matched-cohort study finds that Parkinson's patients with nocturnal hypokinesia show slower turning, poorer backward walking, and fewer daily steps, ...
Thermal Cameras Emerge as a Privacy-Preserving Rival in AI-Powered Gait Analysis
A new survey compares marker-based, markerless and thermal imaging approaches to human pose estimation for detecting gait changes linked to ...
