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Gait Parameters in Healthy Preschool and School Children Assessed Using Wireless Inertial Sensor

Background: The objective gait assessment in children has become more popular. Basis parameters for comparison during the examination are advisable. Objectives: The study aim was to investigate the typical gait parameters of healthy preschool and school children, using a wireless inertial sensor as...

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Autores principales: Gieysztor, Ewa, Kowal, Mateusz, Paprocka-Borowicz, Małgorzata
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8512031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34640743
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21196423
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author Gieysztor, Ewa
Kowal, Mateusz
Paprocka-Borowicz, Małgorzata
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description Background: The objective gait assessment in children has become more popular. Basis parameters for comparison during the examination are advisable. Objectives: The study aim was to investigate the typical gait parameters of healthy preschool and school children, using a wireless inertial sensor as the reference for atypical gait. The additional aim was to compare the specific gait parameters in the younger and older group of children. Methods: One hundred and sixty-one children’s gait parameters were evaluated by a G-Walk BTS G-SENSOR smart analyzer. The children were walking barefoot, at a self-selected speed, on a five-meter walkway, and they turned around and go back twice. Results: Age significantly influences most of the spatiotemporal parameters. The support phase becomes shorter with age. Accordingly, the swing phase becomes longer with age. The results also show that older children need shorter double support and have longer single support. Moreover, the pelvic tilt symmetry index is higher with increasing age. In each age division, the smallest variation in all gait parameters within the oldest group of examined children was observed. A comparison between the left and right side gait parameters shows the higher difference in boys than in girls. A significant difference was calculated in the pelvic obliquity symmetry index. Girls had significantly more symmetrical obliquity than boys. Conclusions: the research indicates the basic parameters of typical children’s gait, which may be a reference to atypical gait in the case of trauma or disability.
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spelling pubmed-85120312021-10-14 Gait Parameters in Healthy Preschool and School Children Assessed Using Wireless Inertial Sensor Gieysztor, Ewa Kowal, Mateusz Paprocka-Borowicz, Małgorzata Sensors (Basel) Communication Background: The objective gait assessment in children has become more popular. Basis parameters for comparison during the examination are advisable. Objectives: The study aim was to investigate the typical gait parameters of healthy preschool and school children, using a wireless inertial sensor as the reference for atypical gait. The additional aim was to compare the specific gait parameters in the younger and older group of children. Methods: One hundred and sixty-one children’s gait parameters were evaluated by a G-Walk BTS G-SENSOR smart analyzer. The children were walking barefoot, at a self-selected speed, on a five-meter walkway, and they turned around and go back twice. Results: Age significantly influences most of the spatiotemporal parameters. The support phase becomes shorter with age. Accordingly, the swing phase becomes longer with age. The results also show that older children need shorter double support and have longer single support. Moreover, the pelvic tilt symmetry index is higher with increasing age. In each age division, the smallest variation in all gait parameters within the oldest group of examined children was observed. A comparison between the left and right side gait parameters shows the higher difference in boys than in girls. A significant difference was calculated in the pelvic obliquity symmetry index. Girls had significantly more symmetrical obliquity than boys. Conclusions: the research indicates the basic parameters of typical children’s gait, which may be a reference to atypical gait in the case of trauma or disability. MDPI 2021-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8512031/ /pubmed/34640743 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21196423 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Gieysztor, Ewa
Kowal, Mateusz
Paprocka-Borowicz, Małgorzata
Gait Parameters in Healthy Preschool and School Children Assessed Using Wireless Inertial Sensor
title Gait Parameters in Healthy Preschool and School Children Assessed Using Wireless Inertial Sensor
title_full Gait Parameters in Healthy Preschool and School Children Assessed Using Wireless Inertial Sensor
title_fullStr Gait Parameters in Healthy Preschool and School Children Assessed Using Wireless Inertial Sensor
title_full_unstemmed Gait Parameters in Healthy Preschool and School Children Assessed Using Wireless Inertial Sensor
title_short Gait Parameters in Healthy Preschool and School Children Assessed Using Wireless Inertial Sensor
title_sort gait parameters in healthy preschool and school children assessed using wireless inertial sensor
topic Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8512031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34640743
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21196423
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