Development of temporal and distance parameters of gait in normal children
Hillman, S.J. and Stansfield, B.W. and Richardson, A.M. and Robb, J.E. (2009) Development of temporal and distance parameters of gait in normal children. Gait and Posture, 29 (1). pp. 81-85. ISSN 0966-6362 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2008.06.012)
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Temporal and distance parameters of 33 normal children were obtained from instrumented gait analysis prospectively over five consecutive years. The parameters were normalised to minimise the confounding effects of increasing height and leg length. Rank correlations were performed on normalised speed, normalised stride length, normalised cadence and normalised walk ratio across consecutive pairs of years to examine the ranking of these parameters for an individual child over time. Consistent trends of increasing rank correlation were observed in normalised stride length and normalised walk ratio suggesting that individual children were continuing to adjust these gait parameters towards their own characteristic position within the normal range. Consistent trends were not observed in the rank correlations for normalised speed and normalised cadence. These findings support the concept that individual children predominantly adjusted their cadence to effect changes in speed, while the development of stride length was dictated by other factors specific to the individual child. Rank correlation coefficients for walk ratio between consecutive years increased from the ages of 7-11 years of age and hence walk ratio appears be a feature of gait that matures beyond the age of 7 years. This accords with the proposal that it is an invariant parameter for an individual.
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Item type: Article ID code: 19335 Dates: DateEventJanuary 2009PublishedSubjects: Medicine > Pediatrics > Child Health. Child health services Department: Faculty of Engineering > National Centre for Prosthetics and Orthotics
Faculty of Engineering > BioengineeringDepositing user: Strathprints Administrator Date deposited: 01 Jun 2010 13:52 Last modified: 08 Apr 2024 17:47 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/19335