Laboratory and free-living gait performance in adults with COPD and healthy controls.
Joren BuekersDimitrios MegaritisSarah KochLisa AlcockNadir AmmourClemens BeckerStefano BertulettiTecla BonciPhilip BrownEllen E BuckleySara C ButteryBrian CaulfiedAndrea CereattiNikolaos ChynkiamisHeleen DemeyerCarlos EchevarriaAnja FreiClint HansenJeffrey M HausdorffNicholas S HopkinsonEmily HumeArne KuederleWalter MaetzlerClaudia MazzàEncarna M Micó-AmigoArne MuellerLuca PalmeriniFrancesca SalisKirsty ScottThierry TroostersBeatrix VereijkenHenrik WatzLynn RochesterSilvia Del DinIoannis VogiatzisJudith M Garcia-AymerichPublished in: ERJ open research (2023)
Gait impairment of adults with mild-to-severe COPD mainly manifests during relatively long walking bouts (>30 s) in free-living conditions. Future research should determine the underlying mechanism(s) of this impairment to facilitate the development of interventions that can improve free-living gait performance in adults with COPD.