Reduced hip extension during walking: Healthy elderly and fallers versus young adults
Reduced hip extension during walking: Healthy elderly and fallers versus young adults
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DOI:
10.1053/apmr.2001.18584
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发表时间:
2001-01-01
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Lipsitz, LA
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作者:
Kerrigan, DC;Lee, LW;Lipsitz, LA
Objectives: To test the hypothesis that reduced hip extension range during walking, representing a limiting impairment of hip tightness, is a consistent dynamic finding that (1) occurs with increased age and (2) is exaggerated in elderly people who fall.Design: Using a 3-dimensional optoelectronic motion analysis system, we compared full sagittal plane kinematic (lower extremity joint motion, pelvic motion) data during walking between elderly and young adults and between elderly fallers and nonfallers. Comparisons were also performed between comfortable and fast walking speeds within each elderly group.Setting: A gait laboratory.Participants: Twenty-three healthy elderly subjects, 16 elderly fallers (otherwise healthy elderly subjects with a history of recurrent falls), and 30 healthy young adult subjects.Main Outcome Measures: All major peak joint angle and pelvic position values.Results: Peak hip extension was the only leg joint parameter measured during walking that was both significantly lower in elderly nonfallers and fallers than in young adult subjects and was even lower in elderly fallers compared with nonfallers tall p