New York, NY--July 26, 2017--In the U.S., 3.6 out of 1000 school-aged children are diagnosed with cerebral palsy (CP). Their symptoms include abnormal gait patterns which results in joint degeneration ...

At the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, children with cerebral palsy are donning exoskeletons to help them learn to walk more effectively. And they’re happy ...

3.6 out of 1,000 children in the US are diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Their symptoms can include abnormal gait patterns such as crouch gait, characterized by excessive flexion of the hips, knees, or ...

HONOLULU — Virtual reality (VR) may help clinicians better assess gait disturbances, including freezing of gait (FOG), in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Using a “Virtual Gait Lab” system, ...

Studying how people recover from injuries that affect balance, strength or movement — or all three — is much safer when subjects don’t fall while they’re being studied. That’s the endgame of a new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Clinical gait analysis can be used to assess children with various walking problems. It may also lead to lower ...

Outside of a gait laboratory, this investigation compared gait pattern differences between children who have Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and their typically developing counterparts to gain more ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cerebral palsy (CP)- caused by neurological damage before, during or after birth- is the most common movement disorder in children, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Personalized foot angle retraining may be an effective nonsurgical option for medial knee OA. The program ...

The word gait refers to the movement you use to walk or run. Walking is a complex series of movements that requires your brain, bones, and muscles to work together, with help from your heart and lungs ...