This study examined how mediolateral foot placement is controlled following mechanical perturbations that affected either whole-body linear or angular momentum. Predictive foot placement models based ...

Feedback control is required to maintain stability in both walking and standing, whereas the control parameters may differ due to the inherently different characteristics of these tasks. How feedback ...

Background Gait instability is a common and disabling symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD), contributing to frequent falls and reduced quality of life. While clinical balance tests and spatiotemporal g...

Stabilizing the upright posture of the trunk relies on vestibular and proprioceptive afference. Previous studies found that the feedback responses to sensory afference vary between postures and tasks....

Visual perturbations may lead to a perception of self-motion and affect balance control. We studied effects of different visual perturbations in 16 healthy young participants walking on a treadmill, b...

Inverse dynamics is a technique in which measured kinematics and, possibly, external forces are used to calculate net joint torques in a rigid body linked segment model. However, kinematics and forces...

Background Accurate gait recognition from daily physical activities is a critical first step for further fall risk assessment and rehabilitation monitoring based on inertial sensors. However, most ope...

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