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Different types of plantar vibration affect gait characteristics differently while walking on different inclines
BACKGROUND: Plantar vibration has been widely used to strengthen the sensation of the somatosensory system, further enhancing balance during walking on a level surface in patients with stroke. However, previous studies with plantar vibration only involved the level surface, which neglected the impor...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9835691/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36643634 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14619 |
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author | Xie, Haoyu Liang, Haolan Chien, Jung H. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Plantar vibration has been widely used to strengthen the sensation of the somatosensory system, further enhancing balance during walking on a level surface in patients with stroke. However, previous studies with plantar vibration only involved the level surface, which neglected the importance of inclined/declined walking in daily life. Thus, combining the plantar vibration and inclined/declined walking might answer a critical research question: whether different types of plantar vibration had different effects on gait characteristics during walking on different inclines. METHODS: Eighteen healthy young adults were recruited. Fifteen walking conditions were assigned randomly to these healthy adults (no, sub-, and supra-threshold plantar vibration × five different inclines: +15%, +8%, 0%, −8%, −15% grade). A motion capture system with eight cameras captured 12 retro-reflective markers and measured the stride time, stride length, step width, and respective variabilities. RESULTS: A significant interaction between vibration and inclination was observed in the stride time (p < 0.0001) and step width (p = 0.015). Post hoc comparisons found that supra-threshold vibration significantly decreased the stride time (−8%: p < 0.001; −15%: p < 0.001) while the sub-threshold vibration significantly increased the step width (−8%: p = 0.036) in comparison with no plantar vibration. CONCLUSIONS: When walking downhill, any perceivable (supra-threshold) vibration on the plantar area decreased the stride time. Also, the increase in step width was observed by non-perceivable (sub-threshold) plantar vibration while walking uphill. These observations were crucial as follows: (1) applying sub-threshold plantar vibrations during uphill walking could increase the base of support, and (2) for those who may need challenges in locomotor training, applying supra-threshold vibration during downhill walking could reach this specific training goal. |
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spelling | pubmed-98356912023-01-13 Different types of plantar vibration affect gait characteristics differently while walking on different inclines Xie, Haoyu Liang, Haolan Chien, Jung H. PeerJ Kinesiology BACKGROUND: Plantar vibration has been widely used to strengthen the sensation of the somatosensory system, further enhancing balance during walking on a level surface in patients with stroke. However, previous studies with plantar vibration only involved the level surface, which neglected the importance of inclined/declined walking in daily life. Thus, combining the plantar vibration and inclined/declined walking might answer a critical research question: whether different types of plantar vibration had different effects on gait characteristics during walking on different inclines. METHODS: Eighteen healthy young adults were recruited. Fifteen walking conditions were assigned randomly to these healthy adults (no, sub-, and supra-threshold plantar vibration × five different inclines: +15%, +8%, 0%, −8%, −15% grade). A motion capture system with eight cameras captured 12 retro-reflective markers and measured the stride time, stride length, step width, and respective variabilities. RESULTS: A significant interaction between vibration and inclination was observed in the stride time (p < 0.0001) and step width (p = 0.015). Post hoc comparisons found that supra-threshold vibration significantly decreased the stride time (−8%: p < 0.001; −15%: p < 0.001) while the sub-threshold vibration significantly increased the step width (−8%: p = 0.036) in comparison with no plantar vibration. CONCLUSIONS: When walking downhill, any perceivable (supra-threshold) vibration on the plantar area decreased the stride time. Also, the increase in step width was observed by non-perceivable (sub-threshold) plantar vibration while walking uphill. These observations were crucial as follows: (1) applying sub-threshold plantar vibrations during uphill walking could increase the base of support, and (2) for those who may need challenges in locomotor training, applying supra-threshold vibration during downhill walking could reach this specific training goal. PeerJ Inc. 2023-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9835691/ /pubmed/36643634 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14619 Text en © 2023 Xie et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Kinesiology Xie, Haoyu Liang, Haolan Chien, Jung H. Different types of plantar vibration affect gait characteristics differently while walking on different inclines |
title | Different types of plantar vibration affect gait characteristics differently while walking on different inclines |
title_full | Different types of plantar vibration affect gait characteristics differently while walking on different inclines |
title_fullStr | Different types of plantar vibration affect gait characteristics differently while walking on different inclines |
title_full_unstemmed | Different types of plantar vibration affect gait characteristics differently while walking on different inclines |
title_short | Different types of plantar vibration affect gait characteristics differently while walking on different inclines |
title_sort | different types of plantar vibration affect gait characteristics differently while walking on different inclines |
topic | Kinesiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9835691/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36643634 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14619 |
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