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How does external lateral stabilization constrain normal gait, apart from improving medio-lateral gait stability?

Mohammadreza MahakiTrienke IJmkerHan J P HoudijkSjoerd Matthijs Bruijn
Published in: Royal Society open science (2021)
Existing lateral stabilization set-ups not only constrain medio-lateral motions (i.e. medio-lateral pelvis displacement) but also constrain other movements such as transverse and frontal pelvis rotations, which leads to several other gait changes such as reduced transverse thorax rotation, and arm swing. Our new set-ups allowed for normal frontal pelvis rotation and more transverse pelvis rotation (yet less than normal). However, this did not result in more normal thorax rotation and arm swing. Hence, to provide medio-lateral support without constraining other gait variables, more elaborate set-ups are needed.
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