Walking can be exceedingly complex to analyze due to highly nonlinear multibody
dynamics, nonlinear relationships between muscle excitations and resulting muscle forces …

People fall more often when their gait stability is reduced. Gait stability can be directly
manipulated by exerting forces or moments onto a person, ranging from simple walking …

Young, healthy adults walking at typical preferred speeds use step-by-step adjustments of
step width to appropriately redirect their center of mass motion and ensure mediolateral …

Mediolateral balance control during walking is a challenging task in post-stroke hemiparetic
individuals. To detect and treat dynamic balance disorders, it is important to assess balance …

Derived from inverted pendulum dynamics, mediolateral Margin of Stability (MoS ML) is a
mechanically-grounded measure of instantaneous frontal-plane stability. However, average …

In this study, we aimed to discover (1) the effects of age on dynamic balance measures,
including the margin of stability (MOS), whole-body angular momentum (H), and …

Active control of the mediolateral location of the feet is an important component of a stable
bipedal walking pattern, although the roles of sensory feedback in this process are unclear …

Recent evidence suggests that during volitional stepping older adults control whole-body
angular momentum (H) less effectively than younger adults, which may impose a greater …

Background Humans partially maintain gait stability by actively controlling step width based
on the dynamic state of the pelvis–hereby defined as the “dynamics-dependent control of …

Background Some older individuals walk slower, which may be due to decreases in
mechanical stability at faster speeds or due to psychological factors like balance confidence …