Fundamental motion outcomes - Steps / Strides
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Department of University Medicine of Aging, Felix Platter-Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
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Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Cognitive Disorders, Geriatrics, Kinesiology
- Keywords
- Strides, Walking speed, Gait, Falls, cognition
- Copyright
- © 2015 Kressig
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, 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 PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2015. Fundamental motion outcomes - Steps / Strides. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e1070v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1070v1
Abstract
We describe the close relationship between stride, cadence and velocity, as fundamental motion outcomes, in particular for the elderly. Stride (Length, Time, CoV) is a meaningful mobility outcome for clinical intervention trials. Stride variability while motor-cognitive dual-tasking is a sensitive mobility outcome for fall risk and cognitive disorders (e.g. Alzheimer’s disease) at an early stage. Salsa proved to be a safe and feasible exercise programme for older adults accompanied with a high adherence rate
Author Comment
This presentation was a contribution to the 2nd Winter Symposium of the "Human Motion Project" and is part of "PeerJ Human Motion Project Collection".