Effects of physical exhaustion on local dynamic stability and automaticity of walking

The participation in various activities of daily living requires stable bipedal gait patterns. Instable gait, however, prevents individuals from participating in activities of daily living and is associated with risk of falling [1,2]. A second crucial factor with respect to navigating safely in complex environments, where people have to handle “natural” dual-tasks (e.g. tracking other people to avoid crashes while walking), is the degree of automaticity of walking [3]. As such, a higher degree of automaticity would lead to a situation in which the control of walking would be less prone to be interfered by conditions in which divided a ttention is required.

Source: Gait and Posture - August 27, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Daniel Hamacher, Dennis Hamacher, Mich èle Hohnbaum, Karsten Gerth, Lutz Schega, Astrid Zech Tags: Full length article Source Type: research