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How age and surface inclination affect joint moment strategies to accelerate and decelerate individual leg joints during walking.

ABSTRACT: A joint moment also causes motion at other joints of the body. This joint coupling-perspective allows more insight into two age-related phenomena during gait. First, whether increased hip kinetic output compensates for decreased ankle kinetic output during positive joint work. Second, whether preserved joint kinetic patterns during negative joint work in older age have any functional implication. Therefore, we examined how age and surface inclination affect joint moment strategies to accelerate and/or decelerate individual leg joints during walking. Healthy young (age: 22.5?±?4.1?years, n?=?18) and older (age: 76.0?±?5.7?years, n?=?22) adults walked at 1.4?m/s on a split-belt instrumented treadmill at three grades (0%, 10%, -10%). Lower-extremity moment-induced angular accelerations were calculated for the hip (0% and 10%) and knee (0% and -10%) joints. During level and uphill walking, both age groups showed comparable ankle moment-induced ipsilateral (p?=?0.774) and contralateral (p?=?0.047) hip accelerations, although older adults generated lower ankle moments in late stance. However, ankle moment-induced contralateral hip accelerations were smaller (p?=?0.001) in an older adult subgroup (n?=?13) who showed larger hip extension moments in early stance than young adults. During level and downhill walking, leg joint moment-induced knee accelerations were unaffected by age (all p?>?0.05). These findings suggest that during level and uphill walking increased hip flexor mechanical output in older adults does not arise from reduced ankle moments, contrary to increased hip extensor mechanical output. Additionally, results during level and downhill walking imply that preserved eccentric knee extensor function is important in maintaining knee stabilization in older age.

SUBMITTER: Waanders JB

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7245140 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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How age and surface inclination affect joint moment strategies to accelerate and decelerate individual leg joints during walking.

Waanders Jeroen B JB Murgia Alessio A Hortobágyi Tibor T DeVita Paul P Franz Jason R JR

Journal of biomechanics 20191022

A joint moment also causes motion at other joints of the body. This joint coupling-perspective allows more insight into two age-related phenomena during gait. First, whether increased hip kinetic output compensates for decreased ankle kinetic output during positive joint work. Second, whether preserved joint kinetic patterns during negative joint work in older age have any functional implication. Therefore, we examined how age and surface inclination affect joint moment strategies to accelerate ...[more]

PMID: 31690458

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Project description:The muscles surrounding the ankle, knee and hip joints provide 42, 16 and 42%, respectively, of the total leg positive power required to walk on level ground at various speeds. However, each joint's contribution to leg work when walking up/downhill at a range of speeds is not known. Determining each biological joint's contribution to leg work over a range of speeds and slopes can inform the design of biomimetic assistive devices (i.e. prostheses). Twenty healthy adults walked 1.00, 1.25 and 1.50 m s-1 on 0°, ±3°, ±6° and ±9° while we collected kinematic and kinetic data. We calculated sagittal plane joint work and individual leg work over the entire stance phase. The ratio of ankle joint to total individual leg positive work (summed ankle, knee and hip joint work) did not change (0.42) with speed or slope, but the ratio of ankle joint to individual leg negative work was 0.38 at -9°, 0.42 at 0° and 0.27 at +9° across all speeds. The ratio of ankle joint to total individual leg negative work was 0.41 at 1.00 m s-1 and 0.32 at 1.50 m s-1 across all slopes. The ratio of knee joint to total individual positive leg work (0.22) did not change with speed or slope. The ratio of knee joint to total individual leg negative work was 0.39 at 1.00 m s-1 and 0.45 at 1.50 m s-1 across all slopes. The ratio of hip joint to total individual leg positive work did not change with speed but was 0.34 at -9°, 0.33 at 0° and 0.37 at +9° across all speeds. The ratio of hip joint to total individual leg negative work was 0.21 at 1.00 m s-1, and 0.24 at 1.50 m s-1 across all slopes and 0.17 at -9°, 0.19 at 0° and 0.29 at +9° across all speeds. The ankle significantly contributes to walking on slopes and this contribution changes during sloped compared with level-ground walking, thus assistive devices that provide biomimetic ankle function must adapt to accommodate walking at different speeds and slopes; whereas assistive biomimetic devices for the knee only need to adapt at different speeds.

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How age and surface inclination affect joint moment strategies to accelerate and decelerate individual leg joints during walking.

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How age and surface inclination affect joint moment strategies to accelerate and decelerate individual leg joints during walking.

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