Walking with rollator: a systematic review of gait parameters in older persons

BACKGROUND: The aging population increasingly needs assistive technologies, such as rollators, to function and live less dependently. Rollators are designed to decrease the risk of falls by improving the gait mechanics of their users. However, data on the biomechanics of rollator assisted gait of ol...

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Autores principales: Mundt, Marion, Batista, Joao Pedro, Markert, Bernd, Bollheimer, Cornelius, Laurentius, Thea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6734589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31528238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11556-019-0222-5
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author Mundt, Marion
Batista, Joao Pedro
Markert, Bernd
Bollheimer, Cornelius
Laurentius, Thea
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description BACKGROUND: The aging population increasingly needs assistive technologies, such as rollators, to function and live less dependently. Rollators are designed to decrease the risk of falls by improving the gait mechanics of their users. However, data on the biomechanics of rollator assisted gait of older adults are limited, or mostly derived from experiments with younger adults. METHODS AND RESULTS: This review summarises the data from 18 independent studies on the kinematic and kinetic gait parameters of assisted gait of older persons. All of these studies evaluated spatio-temporal parameters, but not joint angles or moments. CONCLUSION: Due to the limited research on rollator supported gait in older adults, the number of parameters that could be analysed in this systematic review was restricted. Further research in the analysis of spatio-temporal parameters and a higher standardisation in clinical research will be necessary.
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spelling pubmed-67345892019-09-16 Walking with rollator: a systematic review of gait parameters in older persons Mundt, Marion Batista, Joao Pedro Markert, Bernd Bollheimer, Cornelius Laurentius, Thea Eur Rev Aging Phys Act Review Article BACKGROUND: The aging population increasingly needs assistive technologies, such as rollators, to function and live less dependently. Rollators are designed to decrease the risk of falls by improving the gait mechanics of their users. However, data on the biomechanics of rollator assisted gait of older adults are limited, or mostly derived from experiments with younger adults. METHODS AND RESULTS: This review summarises the data from 18 independent studies on the kinematic and kinetic gait parameters of assisted gait of older persons. All of these studies evaluated spatio-temporal parameters, but not joint angles or moments. CONCLUSION: Due to the limited research on rollator supported gait in older adults, the number of parameters that could be analysed in this systematic review was restricted. Further research in the analysis of spatio-temporal parameters and a higher standardisation in clinical research will be necessary. BioMed Central 2019-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6734589/ /pubmed/31528238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11556-019-0222-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31528238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11556-019-0222-5
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