Advanced Age Redistributes Positive but Not Negative Leg Joint Work during Walking
العنوان: | Advanced Age Redistributes Positive but Not Negative Leg Joint Work during Walking |
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المؤلفون: | Jeroen B Waanders, Alessio Murgia, Paul DeVita, Tibor Hortobágyi, Jason R. Franz |
المساهمون: | SMART Movements (SMART) |
المصدر: | Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 51(4), 615-623. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS |
بيانات النشر: | LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 2019. |
سنة النشر: | 2019 |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Aging, Adolescent, Clinical Sciences, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Isometric exercise, Walking, Concentric, CONCENTRIC, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, 0302 clinical medicine, Physical medicine and rehabilitation, medicine, Eccentric, Humans, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Knee, Ground reaction force, Muscle, Skeletal, Aged, Leg, business.industry, Age Factors, 030229 sport sciences, BIOMECHANICS, Biomechanical Phenomena, Walking Speed, Preferred walking speed, medicine.anatomical_structure, Gait analysis, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, Female, Ankle, ECCENTRIC, business, Exercise prescription, Gait Analysis, human activities, GAIT, Muscle Contraction |
الوصف: | Supplemental digital content is available in the text. Introduction Advanced age brings a distal-to-proximal redistribution of positive joint work during walking that is relevant to walking performance and economy. It is unclear whether negative joint work is similarly redistributed in old age. Negative work can affect positive work through elastic energy return in gait. We determined the effects of age, walking speed, and grade on positive and negative joint work in young and older adults. Methods Bilateral ground reaction force and marker data were collected from healthy young (age = 22.5 yr, n = 18) and older (age = 76.0 yr, n = 22) adults walking on a split-belt instrumented treadmill at 1.1, 1.4, and 1.7 m·s−1 at each of three grades (0%, 10%, and −10%). Subjects also performed maximal voluntary eccentric, isometric, and concentric contractions for the knee extensors (120°·s−1, 90°·s−1, and 0°·s−1) and plantarflexors (90°·s−1, 30°·s−1, and 0°·s−1). Results Compared with young adults, older adults exhibited a distal-to-proximal redistribution of positive leg joint work during level (P < 0.001) and uphill (P < 0.001) walking, with larger differences at faster walking speeds. However, the distribution of negative joint work was unaffected by age during level (P = 0.150) and downhill (P = 0.350) walking. Finally, the age-related loss of maximal voluntary knee extensor (P < 0.001) and plantarflexor (P = 0.001) strength was smaller during an eccentric contraction versus concentric contraction for the knee extensors (P < 0.001) but not for the plantarflexors (P = 0.320). Conclusion The distal-to-proximal redistribution of positive joint work during level and uphill walking is absent for negative joint work during level and downhill walking. Exercise prescription should focus on improving ankle muscle function while preserving knee muscle function in older adults trying to maintain their independence. |
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اللغة: | English |
تدمد: | 1530-0315 0195-9131 |
الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::0a58f2a1304935f8934d3b3cf9d04be9Test https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/6d0c8955-ad10-4d74-871c-8f6b92a97259Test |
حقوق: | OPEN |
رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....0a58f2a1304935f8934d3b3cf9d04be9 |
قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
تدمد: | 15300315 01959131 |
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