Anomalous centre of mass energy fluctuations during treadmill walking in healthy individuals

Collett, Johnathan, Dawes, Helen, Howells, Ken, Elsworth, Charlotte, Izadi, Hooshang and Sackley, Catherine (2007) Anomalous centre of mass energy fluctuations during treadmill walking in healthy individuals. Gait & Posture, 26 (3). pp. 400-406. ISSN 0966-6362

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Abstract

Motorised treadmills are used to research and rehabilitate gait despite conflicting evidence that treadmill ambulation is equivalent to ground walking. It has been suggested that no mechanical differences should exist between these environments but there is little evidence to support this. During ground walking, the whole body centre of mass (COM) acts like an inverted pendulum recovering energy, thereby reducing the effort of locomotion. The energy recovery has a relationship with speed whereby maximum recovery occurs at intermediate speeds. In order to determine the relationship between energy recovery and speed during treadmill walking, we investigated estimated COM displacement in nine healthy individuals each walking on a treadmill at seven different speeds. In addition, we measured oxygen cost to determine the effort of walking. Our participants formed two distinct groups, those with normal COM energy recovery (N%R) that was similar to ground walking, and those with low COM energy recovery (L%R) that was different from typical ground walking. The low energy recovery in the L%R group was attributed to in-phase potential and kinetic energy fluctuations. Despite the low energy recovery values both groups produced the expected 'U'-shaped oxygen cost speed curve with no significant difference between groups (p

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	oxygen consumption,humans,adult,walking,exercise,gait,male,female
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Rehabilitation Sciences (former - to 2014)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Rehabilitation
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	16 Oct 2013 00:43
Last Modified:	16 May 2023 17:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/43713
DOI:	10.1016/j.gaitpost.2006.10.002

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