Determinants of Dynamic Gait

• Determinants of Dynamic Gait control are similar to Balance control:

  • biomechanical constraints
  • cognitive processing
  • verticality
  • movement strategies
  • sensory modalities
• Determinants of Dynamic Gait - Biomechanical Constraints:

  • Weakness
  • Restriction
  • Base of support
• Determinants of Dynamic Gait - Cognitive Processing:

  • Expectation
  • attention
  • experience
  • environmental context and attention
• Determinants of Dynamic Gait - Verticality:

  • People without disability are generally able to identify vertical within 0.5 degrees
• Determinants of Dynamic Gait - Movement strategies:

  • Ankle and Hip strategy: Reactive, Anticipatory, Voluntary
• Determinants of Dynamic Gait - Sensory Integration/Reweighting:

  • Is your CNS able to respond challenges?
• Determinants of Dynamic Gait - Sensory Modalities:

  • Are the problems in structures that deliver information to CNS OR are there problems in the CNS structures that process this information