Comparison of spatiotemporal gait parameters and their variability in typically developing children aged 2, 3, and 6 years

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15510/23:73619727

Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0285558" target="_blank" >https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0285558</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285558" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0285558</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Comparison of spatiotemporal gait parameters and their variability in typically developing children aged 2, 3, and 6 years

Original language description

Independent walking is an important milestone in a child's development. The maturation of central nervous system, changes in body proportions, spatiotemporal parameters of gait and their variability change are dependent on age. The first aim of this study was to compare non-normalized and normalized spatiotemporal parameters and their variability in children. The second aim was to determine which spatiotemporal parameters are most affected by aging. Data from 64 typically developing children (age: 2.0-6.9 years), who walked at a self-selected speed along a 10m walkway, were collected with a motion capture system. Spatiotemporal parameters were normalized based on leg length. The main effect of the non-normalized walking speed revealed a moderate effect size (ES = 0.72) comparing 2- and 3-years-old, a large effect size comparing 2- and 6-years-old (ES = 1.77), and a large ES comparing 3- and 6-years-old (ES = 1.22). The normalized stride width parameter showed a statistically significant difference with large effect size between 2 vs 3 (ES = 1.00), 2 vs 6 (ES = 3.17), and 3 vs 6 (ES = 1.96). A statistically significant decrease in intra-individual gait variability with increasing age was observed in all parameters except for stride width. The variability of stride width may serve as a parameter in 2-year-olds to assess deviations from typically developing children. The assessment of effect size could be a useful indicator for clinical practice.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Plos one

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

1-9

UT code for WoS article

001022246200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85159576538