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Toward a better understanding of gait changes with age and disablement: neuromuscular adaptation
1Biomotion Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedics, Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114, USA. cmcgibbon@partners.org
Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews
|April 29, 2003
Abstract:
Gait changes in the elderly, such as reduced step length and walking speed, are well documented but not well understood. This review explores the hypothesis that neuromuscular adaptations are a response to age-related impairments and play a key role in causing gait changes in the elderly, and that different neuromuscular adaptations may exist depending on the impairment and presence of comorbidities, such as knee arthritis.