Age-associated changes of walking parameters in Japanese adult women.
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the age-associated changes in walking movements. A two-dimensional movement analysis was conducted on a sample of 177 healthy women aged 19-82 years, with performance descriptors, kinematics, and kinetics as the parameters. An analysis of co-variance, with the gait velocity as co-variate and the categorized age group as a fixed factor, was adopted to examine the differences in each parameter among eight age groups. We conclude that age-associated changes in walking movement occur due to the essential effect of aging in walking, rather than due to differences in the physique or decrease of the gait velocity.
1 Faculty of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications Tokyo , Japan .
Kazutoshi
K
Kikkawa
Hidetaka
H
Okada
Ryuga
R
Oishi
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D044466:Asian People; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008875:Middle Aged; D016138:Walking / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult