[Gait in the aged (author's transl)].
Typical changes in the gait movements of older people are produced by a decrease in the elasticity of muscles and ligaments, reduced joint mobility and a diminishing quality of equilibrium reactions. They lead to a slower speed of walking with increase in the percentage of the double-stance phase during the gait cycle. Floor reaction forces as measured by a pair of force plates are compared between a 24 year old and a 92 year old woman. A pronounced failure in the older person is the irregular path of the frontal forces which have stabilising functions.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005684:Gait; D006801:Humans
Der Gang des alten Menschen.