Gait

Older men with worse grip strength, gait speed and chair stand times within 5 years before a fracture have increased risk for death, according to study findings published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.

At the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, Zimmer Biomet announced the debut of the WalkAI, a model that helps identify patients with a lower gait speed outcome at 90 days after hip or knee surgery.

Tailored Parkinson’s disease gait impairment compensation strategies may help patients, according to results of a survey study published in Neurology.

The FDA has authorized the marketing of a neuromuscular tongue stimulator to improve short-term gait deficit in adults with mild to moderate multiple sclerosis, according to a press release.

Gait variability — or the stride-to-stride fluctuations in distance and time when moving — served as a marker of cognitive-cortical dysfunction, according to findings published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.

Women with operatively treated distal radius fractures showed declined gait ability vs. controls, which investigators theorize may be related to why patients sustained their fractures.

While associated with fall rates, balance and gait measures do not explain why people with greater visual field damage fall more frequently, according to findings in a recent study.

Movement retraining without adhering to basic motor control principles may be associated with increased patellofemoral pain, according to published results.

Patients with chronic kidney disease experienced more gait abnormalities when walking and talking compared with when doing one of these tasks alone, a finding possibly due to increased cognitive-motor interference, according to this study.

Combined declines in gait speed and memory were associated with an increased risk for dementia among older adults who had not previously showed signs of the condition, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.