Our team has a new study published in Gait & Posture, looking at the relationships between spatiotemporal and kinematic variables during treadmill walking, and how these change with age across adulthood. We found that our older participants seemed to depend more on motion at the ankle and hip, compared to younger participants. This may reflect a strategy used by older adults to help them maintain their walking speed, and/or stay safe while walking on the treadmill. Overall, this research provides insight into the control of walking in healthy individuals across adulthood, and may inform ways to identify dysfunction in walking that occurs with aging.  

This article arose from Hunter Carswell’s MScKin thesis work. Congratulations to Hunter and her supervisor, Dr. Alison Schinkel-Ivy, on the publication!

Read the full article in Gait & Posture:  

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966636224006866