Spectral analysis of walking with shoes and without shoes.
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.
Tsuruoka
Masako
M
Center for Spatial Inf. Sci., Tokyo Univ., Japan. masako@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Tsuruoka
Yuriko
Y
Shibasaki
Ryosuke
R
Yasuoka
Yoshifumi
Y
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