Toward a Better Understanding of Gait Changes with Age and Disablement: Neuromuscular Adaptation

Overview

Journal Exerc Sport Sci Rev

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 2003 Apr 29

PMID 12715975

Citations 63

Authors

Chris A McGibbon

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Abstract

Gait changes in the elderly, such as reduced step length and walking speed, are well documented but not well understood. This review explores the hypothesis that neuromuscular adaptations are a response to age-related impairments and play a key role in causing gait changes in the elderly, and that different neuromuscular adaptations may exist depending on the impairment and presence of comorbidities, such as knee arthritis.

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