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The Development of Mature Walking

The Development of Mature Walking

Sutherland, David
Biden, Edmund
Olshen, Richard

Hardcover

Series: Clinics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press), Book 104

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 0521412218
ISBN13: 9780521412216
Publisher: Mac Keith Press
Published: May 31 1991
Pages: 277
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This important monograph summarizes a comprehensive study on the maturation of walking in normal children. Research, undertaken at one of the world's leading gait analysis centers, involved over 400 studies on a total of nearly 300 children in ten age-groups from one to seven years. Data are presented on anthropometric measurements; tests of developmental progress; time/distance parameters such as stride length and walking velocity; twelve joint angles on each side measured throughout the gait cycle; dynamic electromyography of phasic activity in seven lower-extremity muscle groups; and force measurements including vertical force, fore/aft shear, medial/lateral shear and torque. At each age, composite joint-angle graphs and time/distance parameters are brought together with film tracings of a representative child in that age group. In addition, advanced methods of statistical analysis have been applied to the joint-angle data to define prediction regions within which ninety-five percent of normal children should lie throughout the gait cycle. Finally, a decision tree is presented from which a fitted age can be inferred for a subject based on non-age-specific data gathered in a motion analysis lab. Practical applications are demonstrated in a chapter devoted to two case studies.

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