Sentences with phrase «walking gait»

After saddle thrombus, a cat may be left with a characteristic hock - walking gait due to muscle damage.

I love the Toe Up Slings for my neurologically weak patients - they are convenient and easy to apply for dorsiflex assistance and have improved the walking gait and strength of many of my neurologically disabled patients.»

The underwater treadmill focuses on the walking gait making it ideal for dogs with a neurological or spinal injury who literally needs to relearn how to walk.

The Paso Fino's walking gait is slow, relative to other breeds, but they have excellent endurance and versatility.

Some dogs» walking gait allows the nails to be filed down shorter naturally.

A distorted walking gait can wreck the body and brain.

In extreme cases, even your walking gait will be affected.

After you've healed, consider seeing a physical therapist, trainer, or Egoscue specialist to get your balance and strength assessed as well as your running and walking gait so that you're better fitted for proper, supportive footwear.

«This movement strengthens the gluteus medius, which enables a steady walking gait,» Ostrowska says.

Researchers measured physical activity using accelerometers — small gadgets that monitor all movement throughout the day — alongside elements of physical function including balance, leg strength and walking gait.

The analyses showed that works created before 1887 had incorrect walking gaits about 84 percent of the time.

Cyborg insects aren't new, but this beetle biobot comes with adjustable speeds and two walking gaits: tripod crawling, where three legs touch the ground at all times, and galloping, where pairs of legs move in synchrony.

Scientists zapped cyborg flower beetles to stimulate specific muscles involved in two walking gaits, galloping and crawling.Hirotaka Sato

Not exact matches

«Personality not only influenced walking speed, it also affected how gait changed over time.

In a Durham University study, students were shown video clips of 26 other students walking — some with looser gaits, some tighter.

Toward evening he walks home, his gait is as indefatigable as that of the postman.

If the level of impairment is so severe that independent walking is unlikely, then you start to think about walkers and gait trainers as an adapted means of mobility.

He also painted more than Lancashire — from Piccadilly Circus to the Lake District, he found similar crowds of people with the same dogged gait, walking determinedly into the wind, as if pulled by a magnet attracted to their caps.

In addition, the laboratory has shown improved functional outcomes, including treadmill walking and gait dynamics, in animals receiving the drug.

Another video shows the previously limping man walking at a quick gait with good symmetry between his left and right side.

His stop - motion studies, published in 1887, of animals walking provided incontrovertible evidence of four - legged mammals» gait.

Using a set of simple rules for moving and two knifelike feet, a robot in Germany has learned not only how to walk with a remarkably human gait but also how to ascend a ramp.

Fossils of that primate, discovered in Italy, suggest it walked upright with a slow, shuffling gait.

Researchers from the University of Houston have shown for the first time that the use of a brain - computer interface augmented with a virtual walking avatar can control gait, suggesting the protocol may help patients recover the ability to walk after stroke, some spinal cord injuries and certain other gait disabilities.

A University of Illinois at Chicago researcher will test whether brain stimulation combined with gait training can improve patients» ability to walk after a stroke, under a $ 1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

The study helps settle a long - standing debate about how quickly our ancestors developed a humanlike gait, and shows that ancient hominins didn't have to sacrifice climbing agility to walk upright efficiently.

Blame «Night of the Living Dead» for this, but many people mistakenly think that zombies are nocturnal, going around their business of walking around town with stilted gaits, looking for people whose brains they can eat, only at night.

In work showing the potential to use a brain - computer interface and virtual avatar to treat people with gait disabilities, researchers collected data from eight healthy subjects, all of whom participated in three trials involving walking on a treadmill while watching an avatar.

[Johannes Michalak, Katharina Rohde and Nikolaus F. Troje, How we walk affects what we remember: Gait modifications through biofeedback change negative affective memory bias] Scientists showed volunteers a list of negative and positive words, like afraid and anxious, or sunny and pretty.

And those who walked with a depressed gait recalled more negative terms, while the ones who were asked to walk in a more upbeat style came up with many more positive words.

In addition to the connection with weak grip strength, Wu said there was a «very clear» inverse association between high blood pressure and mortality among those who weren't physically able to finish the gait - speed test in the latest study, measured over a 98.5 - inch walk.

New Scientist magazine reports that Jet Propulsion Lab researcher Adrian Stoica told a meeting in England last month that gait analysis from satellites should make it possible to identify people by their walk and because of the angle of the satellite you have a better chance of getting the image of the shadow than of the actual walk.

It reacts to changing terrain and different walking speeds much like a natural human foot, facilitating a normal gait and allowing its users to push off the ground with seven times as much power as is possible with the best of its predecessors, all while expending less energy.

While dogs are able to swim, it is not as natural for them as walking and other terrestrial gaits.

But in between — in what OSU mechanical engineer and co-author Manoj Srinivasan calls «the twilight zone between walking and running» — people tended to mix the two gaits.

Close - ups of flexible feet as they unroll during walking make the bend obvious, but DeSilva says their owners were not aware of anything unusual, nor was their gait any different.

It turns out that instead of running in the conventional sense, they adopt a unique gait at speed, with the fore limbs trotting and the hind limbs walking.

After studying casts of the Laetoli prints for decades, scientists decided that A. afarensis, though a primitive hominin, walked with a surprisingly modern gait that was not like an ape's.

WALK MAN A new pelvic exoskeleton that prevents users from falling has two modes: Z - Mode, which doesn't exert force on a person's gait, and A-Mode, which detects a change in gait and reacts by rotating the hips back into place.

This suggested to some that they had a more primitive gait and that the transition to fully modern walking didn't happen until our direct ancestor, Homo erectus, emerged about 1.9 million years ago.

By tracking the motion of my shin guards, the Gaiter system measured my gait — the length and rate of my steps — as I walked in place, lifting my feet up and down.

Motor problems such as clumsiness, toe - walking and altered gait are well documented in autism.

This supports previous evidence that unlike humans, who have distinct «walking» and «running» gaits, birds move in a continuum from «walking» to «running.»

«Nobody walks like anybody else, much less with an ideal gait,» Bruckner says.

Walk, trot and gallop are the gaits which all horses can master.

Freezing of gait, an absence of forward progression of the feet despite the intention to walk, is a debilitating symptom of Parkinson's disease.

Some horses have special gaits, which are more comfortable for the rider than walk, trot or gallop.

Gait control — determining when to walk, trot, run, etcetera — will play an important part in BigDog's success, Mandelbaum says.

We naturally shift our gait even if it saves minuscule amounts of energy — a finding that could help people with spinal injuries learn to walk again

The research team is doing further investigations various aspects of gait and how diabetes and DPN affects how these patients walk on level ground and on stairs, to identify and further understand factors that may contribute to unsteadiness and in turn the increased risk of falls.