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Gait Coordination: Controlling Footwear and Lower Limb Dimensions in Clinical Gait Study
… dissertation investigate the relation between gait coordination and footwear and lower limb dimensions. The studies in this dissertation are united by two motivations: 1) improve the rigor of clinical gait study that estimates gait coordination of patients, and 2) bridge the knowledge gap …
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Gait analysis for classification
This thesis describes a representation of gait appearance for the purpose of person identification and classification. This gait representation is based on simple localized image features such as moments extracted from orthogonal view video silhouettes of human walking motion. A suite of …
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Adaptability of Human Gait: Exploring Red Noise Auditory Stimuli and Gait Fluctuation Patterns
Using dynamical systems approaches to examine gait, it has been found that variability structure is important for understanding gait, and that stimuli can influence gait variability. The present study was performed to test for an adaptability limit and to analyze stepping strategies used for …
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A SYSTEM lOR GAIT ANALYSIS
Human gait has been extensively studied in the past in the hope that a more thorough understanding of the differences between normal and abnormal gait, and the relationships between electromyogram (E.M.G.) and the force, may be obtained. In order to study these phenomena, both kinematic data …
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Aging, Gait Variability, and Adaptability
… study the relationships between age, measures of gait variability, and locomotor adaptability. Measures of gait variability are used to identify maladapted locomotor behavior, motor disease, and risk of falls. The first aim was to determine the relationships between age and measures of gait …
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Design of gait rehabilitation system
… functionality. The conceptual development of the gait rehabilitation system also features a human model with average anthropometric dimensions that allows better visualization and understanding of the actual machine operation. The human model is kinematically coupled to the machine and the whole …
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Portable inshoe gait analysis device
Gait analysers are devices or systems that quantify the planter /' pressures as they occur under the foot. The data obtained, be it. in visual or digital format, assists the medical practitioner in the diagnosis of an abnormality of gait. This thesis describes the development of a low-cost, …
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A robot for gait rehabilitation
… suffer from neurological impairments that affect gait, and so require rehabilitation to regain ambulatory function. While 82% of patients recover the ability to walk, current methods including physiotherapy and partial body-weight supported treadmill training (PBWSTT) are monotonous and require …
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Monitoring Gait Complexity in the Wild
Human steady-state gait exhibits subtle stride-to-stride fluctuations that produce complex patterns, termed gait complexity, which provide information about the quality of gait control and adaptive capacity of the walker. Our knowledge of gait complexity is premised on studies estimating nonlinear …
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Techniques for orientation independent gait analysis
Gait recognition algorithms are being increasingly widely researched, however a common assumption is that the subject will be presented side on to the camera. In practice it may not be possible to capture data from this view, so a useful gait recognition algorithm will have to provide a measure of …
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Adaptability of gait in stroke survivors
Background: Stroke survivors fall more often, mostly due to stumbling and slipping; which may signify. These causes of falls are hypothesized to be caused by difficulty in controlling and adjusting foot placement in response to the environment. In healthy adults’ foot placement control is known to …
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Modular engineering of neuromuscular gait simulators
… to the computer simulation of forward dynamic gait models and the optimization of parameters that must be tuned for such models. This methodology is not limited to gait simulation, and could be useful for any situation in which a complex Simulink model requires variables to be tuned via machine …
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Recurrent Gait of Anthropomorphic, Bipedal Walkers
… walkers that can sustain anthropomorphic gait down an inclined plane with gravity being the only source of energy were studied using standard dynamical systems methods. This includes calculating the stability of periodic orbits and varying the system parameter to create bifurcation …
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Gait biomechanics following unilateral hamstring fatigue
… found to experience significant changes to their gait biomechanics. Fatigue induced by eccentric muscle contractions presents similarly to HSIs, both accompanied by strength and neuromuscular deficits. This study's overall objective is to examine the short- and long-term effects of unilateral …
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Development of Automated Gait Assessment and Intelligent Virtual Reality Based Gait Training Systems for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation
… with approximately 80% of survivors experiencing gait impairments that severely compromise mobility, independence, and quality of life. This thesis aims to integrate advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) into post-stroke gait assessment and …
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Detecting Transient Changes in Gait Using Fractal Scaling of Gait Variability in Conjunction with Gaussian Continuous Wavelet Transform
… More recently, investigators have focused on gait complexity and the structure of spatiotemporal variations during walking and running. This study evaluated the use of time-series analyses to determine gait parameters during running. Subjects were college-age female soccer players. …
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Trunk Lean in Control and Osteoarthritic Gait
Trunk lean over the stance limb during gait has been linked to a reduction in the knee adduction moment, which is associated with joint loading. Differences were examined in knee adduction moments and frontal plane trunk lean during gait between subjects with knee osteoarthritis and a control group …
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