The Influence of Walking Height and Width on the Gait

Figure 4

Effect of path width on pressure and temporal characteristics of the foot-ground interaction at the dangerous side. (a) At “heel rise” and “toe off” phases, the plantar pressures of high-platform walking with 0.6 m and 0.9 m path widths were significantly greater than those of ground walking. When path width was increased to 1.2 m, there was constantly no significant difference between ground walking and high-platform walking at all stance phases. (b) “Heel rise” of high-platform walking with 0.6 m and 0.9 m path width occurred significantly earlier than that of ground walking. There was no significant difference between the ground walking and high-platform walking with 120 cm path width.

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