Data di Pubblicazione:
1991
Citazione:
Pathological gait: inefficiency is not a rule / L. Tesio, G.S. Roi, F. Moller. - In: CLINICAL BIOMECHANICS. - ISSN 0268-0033. - 6:1(1991), pp. 47-50. [10.1016/0268-0033(91)90041-N]
Abstract:
Theenergy expenditure per unit distance, or cost of gait, depends on the efficiency of the locomotory mechanism, which is a function of speed. We compared the cost of gait at corresponding speeds between pathologic (hemiplegic, above-knee amputee, paraplegic) and normal subjects respectively, using a polynomial regression on data available from the literature. In all pathologies the cost-speed function showed a minimum at a speed which may be defined as optimum, as in normal gait. Within the speed range possible for the patients, the cost-speed functions were significantly different from the normal one in the above-knee amputee and in the paraplegic, but not in the hemiplegic. In the amputee, the minimum cost was increased by 38% with respect to that of the normal at a corresponding speed. In contrast, the minimum cost was increased by only 11 % in the paraplegic, despite the much more severe impairment.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
amputation; efficiency; energy expenditure; hemiplegia; paraplegia; Pathologic gait
Elenco autori:
L. Tesio, G.S. Roi, F. Moller
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