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Lower-Limb Biomechanical Characteristics Associated with Unplanned Gait Termination Under Different Walking Speeds
Published on: August 25, 2020
Agreement between footswitch and ground reaction force techniques for identifying gait events: inter-session
Peter M Mills1, Rod S Barrett, Steven Morrison
1School of Human Movement and Exercise Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia. pmills@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Abstract:
This study assessed the inter-session repeatability of agreement between foot-ground contact events (foot contact and foot off) identified from ground reaction force and footswitch-based techniques over a range of gait speeds. No inter-session differences in agreement between the ground reaction force and footswitch-based techniques were identified and while agreement between foot-ground contact events defined by the two techniques was found to differ with walking speed, the differences were small (<6 ms or approximately 1% stance duration) and therefore of little practical significance to the majority of gait studies.
