This study included 150 patients aged ≥ 65 years, divided into the following five groups (N = 30 in each group): healthy older individuals (HI), patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), patients with ...

78,87 Because of reduced Ia suppression in spasticity, short-latency stretch reflexes commonly appear in the leg extensor muscles during the transition from the swing to the stance phase of gait, ...

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Conditions affecting upper motor neurons, such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, or cerebral palsy, create characteristic spastic gait patterns with increased muscle tone, circumduction of the ...

Quadriparesis can be flaccid or spastic. In flaccid quadriparesis, the muscles in both the arms and legs have overall muscle tone. People with flaccid type experience significant fatigue with normal ...

Blair and Stanley (1985) developed a system with demonstrated reliability that delineates the categories as follows: (a) predominantly spastic ... intention tremor and gait disturbances later ...

Instead, we focus on the effect of interventions on recovery in four key areas of movement and function that were believed to best encapsulate the targets of the available interventions: (1) ...

To improve the fast and stable walking ability of a humanoid robot, this paper proposes a gait optimization method based on a parallel comprehensive learning particle swarm optimizer (PCLPSO). Firstly ...