title: Spectral analysis of walking with shoes and without shoes.
abstract: This study analyzes the walking balance of young students based on 1/f fluctuations using auto-regressive (AR) modeling. There was more good walking balance than bad, influenced positively or negatively by the students' shoes. After the subjects understood their own walking condition, based on 1/f fluctuation, and had received suitable rehabilitation and shoes, their walking balance became better. This study provides a useful new method of medical evaluation in rehabilitation and physical fitness, and a means for subjects to maintain a state of well being.
authors.affiliation: Center for Spatial Inf. Sci., Tokyo Univ., Japan. masako@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
authors.forename: Masako
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsuruoka
authors.forename: Yuriko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tsuruoka
authors.forename: Ryosuke
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shibasaki
authors.forename: Yoshifumi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yasuoka
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D005684:Gait; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009068:Movement; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009985:Orthopedics / Q000379:methods; D004856:Postural Balance; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012046:Rehabilitation; D012775:Shoes; D016138:Walking