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Study on Tripping Risks in Fast Walking through Cadence-Controlled Gait Analysis
Fast walking is a common exercise for most people to promote health. However, a higher cadence due to fast walking on ordinary or uneven ground raises the risk of tripping. To investigate the tripping issue, research to observe the gait in fast walking is needed. To explore the relationship between...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5996466/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30002803 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2723178 |
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author | Wang, Wen-Fong Lien, Wei-Chih Liu, Che-Yu Yang, Ching-Yu |
author_facet | Wang, Wen-Fong Lien, Wei-Chih Liu, Che-Yu Yang, Ching-Yu |
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description | Fast walking is a common exercise for most people to promote health. However, a higher cadence due to fast walking on ordinary or uneven ground raises the risk of tripping. To investigate the tripping issue, research to observe the gait in fast walking is needed. To explore the relationship between fast gait and the risk of tripping, a gait recording system with a specific synchronization mechanism was developed in this work. The system can acquire gait signals from wearable sensors and action cameras at different cadences. Meanwhile, algorithms for gait cycle segmentation and characteristic extraction were proposed for analyzing a fast gait. In the gait analysis, the correlations of low, moderate, and high cadence in cueing and no cueing gaits were computed, and two results were obtained. First, the higher the cadence is, the larger the motion strength in the terminal foot swing will be and the smaller the motion strength at the starting foot swing. Second, the decreased distance of foot clearance becomes more conspicuous as the cadence increased, especially if one is walking more than 120 beats. The results indicate that fast walking with bigger strides and lower cadence is the best way to maintain safety in moving over ordinary ground. |
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spelling | pubmed-59964662018-07-12 Study on Tripping Risks in Fast Walking through Cadence-Controlled Gait Analysis Wang, Wen-Fong Lien, Wei-Chih Liu, Che-Yu Yang, Ching-Yu J Healthc Eng Research Article Fast walking is a common exercise for most people to promote health. However, a higher cadence due to fast walking on ordinary or uneven ground raises the risk of tripping. To investigate the tripping issue, research to observe the gait in fast walking is needed. To explore the relationship between fast gait and the risk of tripping, a gait recording system with a specific synchronization mechanism was developed in this work. The system can acquire gait signals from wearable sensors and action cameras at different cadences. Meanwhile, algorithms for gait cycle segmentation and characteristic extraction were proposed for analyzing a fast gait. In the gait analysis, the correlations of low, moderate, and high cadence in cueing and no cueing gaits were computed, and two results were obtained. First, the higher the cadence is, the larger the motion strength in the terminal foot swing will be and the smaller the motion strength at the starting foot swing. Second, the decreased distance of foot clearance becomes more conspicuous as the cadence increased, especially if one is walking more than 120 beats. The results indicate that fast walking with bigger strides and lower cadence is the best way to maintain safety in moving over ordinary ground. Hindawi 2018-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5996466/ /pubmed/30002803 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2723178 Text en Copyright © 2018 Wen-Fong Wang et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wang, Wen-Fong Lien, Wei-Chih Liu, Che-Yu Yang, Ching-Yu Study on Tripping Risks in Fast Walking through Cadence-Controlled Gait Analysis |
title | Study on Tripping Risks in Fast Walking through Cadence-Controlled Gait Analysis |
title_full | Study on Tripping Risks in Fast Walking through Cadence-Controlled Gait Analysis |
title_fullStr | Study on Tripping Risks in Fast Walking through Cadence-Controlled Gait Analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Study on Tripping Risks in Fast Walking through Cadence-Controlled Gait Analysis |
title_short | Study on Tripping Risks in Fast Walking through Cadence-Controlled Gait Analysis |
title_sort | study on tripping risks in fast walking through cadence-controlled gait analysis |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5996466/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30002803 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2723178 |
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