Normative Database for Gait Analysis on the GRAIL UZ Gent

Ghent University Hospital (UZ)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Gait

Treatments: Other: Walking on an instrumented treadmill; Other: Walking on an instrumented treadmill while dual-tasking

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04987346

B670201942108

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to collect a large set of norm/control data on an instrumented treadmill (the Gait Real-time Analysis Interactive Lab - GRAIL) at the university hospital of Ghent for the purpose of clinical studies as well as for clinical interpretation.

We hypothesize that this norm/control data will provide reference data of the normal gait patterns in the healthy population such that we can then use it to identify gait abnormalities in populations with pathology.

The following data will be collected on the GRAIL while subjects walk at different gait speeds: 3D kinematics, kinetics, and EMG.

Additionally, 3D kinematics, kinetics, and EMG data will be collected when performing either a cognitive (Stroop Color and Word Test) or motor (requiring arm swing) dual-task while walking at comfortable walking speed.

Enrollment: 240 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy participants

Exclusion criteria

• They suffer from neurological disorder
• Have balance problems
• Take medications that affect gait and balance
• Have undergone surgical procedures on the lower limbs in the past
• Experience pain in their lower limbs or back at the time of test taking.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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240 participants in 1 patient group

Treadmill walking

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be asked to walk at different gait velocities for 1 minute. The treadmill speed will be increased incrementally at 0.1m/s intervals until just before running.

Treatment:

Other: Walking on an instrumented treadmill while dual-tasking

Other: Walking on an instrumented treadmill