title: Use of a gait abnormality index for locomotion efficiency evaluation.
abstract: A number of gait curves obtained from 16 healthy, able-bodied adult males were selected as "normal" gait curves and thereafter analysed with a view to defining a "Gait Abnormality Index", which may be used as quantitative measure of human performance in locomotion. Similar studies on five groups of handicapped subjects, each group having 8 to 10 subjects with a particular type of handicap, indicate the suitability of this index for application in locomotion efficiency evaluation.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D005684:Gait; D006801:Humans; D008124:Locomotion; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics