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Toward a better understanding of gait changes with age and disablement: neuromuscular adaptation
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Toward a better understanding of gait changes with age and disablement: neuromuscular adaptation
Exerc Sport Sci Rev.
2003 Apr.
Abstract
Gait changes in the elderly, such as reduced step length and walking speed, are well documented but not well understood. This review explores the hypothesis that neuromuscular adaptations are a response to age-related impairments and play a key role in causing gait changes in the elderly, and that different neuromuscular adaptations may exist depending on the impairment and presence of comorbidities, such as knee arthritis.
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