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Clinical Assessment of Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Patients and Older Adults

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Age-related differences in interlimb coordination during typical gait: An observational study.

Pieter Meyns¹, Patricia Van de Walle², Kaat Desloovere³

¹REVAL Rehabilitation Research, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building A - B-3590 Diepenbeek, Diepenbeek, Belgium.

|July 25, 2020

Summary

Interlimb coordination, or how arms and legs move together during walking, changes significantly with age. This study reveals distinct developmental patterns in coordination from early childhood through adulthood.

Keywords:

Arm swing Development Maturation Relative phase Variability

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Area of Science:

Developmental biomechanics
Gait analysis
Motor control

Background:

Arm movements during gait change with age, particularly after 3 years.
It remains unclear if interlimb coordination, a gait quality measure, follows similar age-related patterns.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate age-related differences in interlimb coordination during gait in typically developing children and adults.

Main Methods:

98 typically developing participants were grouped by age (2.9-35.2 years).
Three-dimensional total-body gait analysis was performed at self-selected walking speeds.
Mean continuous relative phase (MRP) and its variability (sdMRP) were calculated for limb pairs to assess interlimb coordination.

Main Results:

Coordination shifted towards anti-phase for arm-arm, left arm-left leg, and right arm-right leg pairs with increasing age.
Coordination shifted towards in-phase for left arm-right leg and right arm-left leg pairs with increasing age.
Variability in interlimb coordination (sdMRP) decreased across all limb pairs with age.

Conclusions:

Interlimb coordination during gait demonstrates distinct developmental trajectories, with some patterns maturing earlier than others.
Coordination between the arms matures later, showing differences into adulthood.
These findings establish an age-related framework for normative interlimb coordination, aiding in the identification of neuromotor disorders in children.