People with degenerative cervical myelopathy have impaired reactive balance during walking

People with degenerative cervical myelopathy are known to have impaired standing balance and walking abilities, but less is known about balance responses during walking. The aim of this project was to assess reactive balance impairments during walking in people with degenerative cervical myelopathy...

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Veröffentlicht in:Gait & posture 2024-03, Vol.109, p.303-310
Hauptverfasser: Boerger, Timothy F., McGinn, Learon, Bellman, Megan, Wang, Marjorie C., Schmit, Brian D., Hyngstrom, Allison S.
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Zusammenfassung:People with degenerative cervical myelopathy are known to have impaired standing balance and walking abilities, but less is known about balance responses during walking. The aim of this project was to assess reactive balance impairments during walking in people with degenerative cervical myelopathy (PwDCM). We hypothesized that center of mass motion following perturbations would be larger in PwDCM and gluteus medius electromyographic amplitude responses would be decreased in PwDCM. Reactive balance responses were quantified during unanticipated lateral pulls to the waist while treadmill walking. Walking biomechanics data were collected from 10 PwDCM (F=6) and 10 non-myelopathic controls (F=7) using an 8 camera Vicon System (Vicon MX T-Series). Electromyography was collected from lower limb muscles. Participants walked on an instrumented treadmill and received lateral pulls at random intervals and in randomized direction at 5% and 2.5% body mass. Participants walked at 3 prescribed foot placements to control for effects of the size of base of support. As compared with controls, the perturbation-related positional change of the center of mass motion (ΔCOM) was increased in PwDCM (p=0.001) with similar changes in foot placement (p>0.05). Change in gluteus medius electromyography, however, was less in PwDCM than in controls (p
ISSN:0966-6362
1879-2219
1879-2219
DOI:10.1016/j.gaitpost.2024.02.014