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Stability and Velocity in Incomplete Spinal Cord Injured Subject Gaits
Author(s) -
Karčnik Tomaž,
Kralj Alojz
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
artificial organs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.684
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1525-1594
pISSN - 0160-564X
DOI - 10.1046/j.1525-1594.1999.06369.x
Subject(s) - kinematics , gait , stability (learning theory) , physical medicine and rehabilitation , gait analysis , control theory (sociology) , mathematics , computer science , medicine , physics , artificial intelligence , classical mechanics , control (management) , machine learning
We have defined 2 indices describing gait kinematic and dynamic stability. We assessed their values in the gaits of 5 different paraparetic subjects. The indices are correlated to the gait velocity to prove the close relationship between overall gate velocity and stability. Based on stability analysis and certain kinematic parameters, some possible ways of increasing the average gait velocity are explained.