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Overground vs treadmill gait

Discussion in 'Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses' started by NewsBot, Aug 15, 2006.

  1. NewsBot

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    A kinematic and kinetic comparison of overground and treadmill walking in healthy subjects.
    Riley PO, Paolini G, Croce UD, Paylo KW, Kerrigan DC
    Gait Posture. 2006 Aug 11;
     
  2. Hylton Menz

    Hylton Menz Guest

    No so for older people:

    Gait Posture. 2005 Jan;21(1):72-9.

    Familiarisation to treadmill walking in unimpaired older people.

    Wass E, Taylor NF, Matsas A.

    School of Physiotherapy, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic. 3086, Australia.

    We studied the amount of time required for treadmill familiarisation in older people and also whether familiarised treadmill walking could be generalised to overground walking. Sixteen healthy volunteers over 65 years of age walked on a level overground walkway and on a treadmill at the same speed for up to 15 min. A motion measurement system was used to measure the sagittal plane kinematics of the knee and cadence during overground walking and after 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 min of treadmill walking. Older adults had not familiarised to the treadmill within 15 min as many participants continued to hold the treadmill's handrails and as reliability and absolute difference scores were still changing. Participants were most familiarised after 14 min on the treadmill. Furthermore, treadmill walking after 14 min was not closely related to overground walking in older adults, with measures on the treadmill only being able to predict knee angles during overground to within 8.0 degrees, or cadence to within 16.6 steps/min with 95% confidence. Treadmill walking in older adults after a single 15-min training session could not be generalised to overground walking.
     
  3. davidh

    davidh Podiatry Arena Veteran

    Intersting, if only for the omissions in the Abstract.
    N=?
    Age range?

    And finally, what is (their version of) normal overground. Is it absolutely hard and flat, such as one might find in a gait lab or clinical setting?
    Or does it more closely follow the approximation of hard and flat that most of us weightbear on, and ambulate over for most of the time?
    :confused:
    Regards,
    david
     
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    Walking Indoors, Outdoors, and on a Treadmill: Gait Differences in in Healthy Young and Older Adults
    Abigail C.Schmitt et al
    Gait & Posture; 28 September 2021
     
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