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Adaptation and post-adaptation effects of haptic forces on locomotion in healthy young adults

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, March 2018
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Title
Adaptation and post-adaptation effects of haptic forces on locomotion in healthy young adults
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Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, March 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12984-018-0364-0
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Gianluca U. Sorrento, Philippe S. Archambault, Joyce Fung

Abstract

Developing rehabilitation strategies to improve functional walking and postural control in patients is a priority for rehabilitation clinicians and researchers alike. One possible strategy is the use of sensory modalities to elicit adaptive locomotor gait patterns. This study aimed to explore to what extent haptic inputs, in the form of forward-leading tensile forces delivered to the hand, compared to no force, may lead to adaptation and post-adaptation effects on gait parameters, during and after the haptic exposure, respectively. Thirteen healthy young individuals were recruited for this study. We developed an innovative system combining virtual reality and haptic tensile forces in the direction of locomotion to simulate walking with a dog. A robotic arm generated forces via an adapted leash to the participant's hand while they walked on a self-paced treadmill immersed in a virtual environment with scene progression synchronized to the treadmill. All participants showed significant increases in instantaneous gait velocity and stride length, with accompanying decreases in double-limb support time (p < 0.05) when walking with a haptic tensile force of either 10 or 20 N, relative to pre-force epoch levels, indicating an adaptation effect. When the 10 or 20 N force was removed, gait measures generally remained changed relative to baseline pre-force levels (p < 0.05), providing evidence of a post-adaptation effect. Changes in spatiotemporal outcomes provide evidence that both adaptation and post-adaptation effects were present in response to the application and removal of a haptic force. Future studies will investigate whether similar changes in elderly and post-stroke populations can be actualized during steady-state walking.

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Unknown 124 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 22 18%
Student > Master 18 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 11%
Researcher 8 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 4%
Other 11 9%
Unknown 46 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 27 22%
Engineering 13 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 9%
Sports and Recreations 6 5%
Neuroscience 6 5%
Other 13 10%
Unknown 48 39%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 April 2019.
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#14
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