The Reliability of Spatiotemporal Gait Data for Young and Older Women During Continuous Overground Walking

Abstract

Paterson KL, Hill KD, Lythgo ND, Maschette W. The reliability of spatiotemporal gait data for young and older women during continuous overground walking. Objective: To examine the reliability and systematic bias in spatiotemporal gait parameters recorded in healthy women during repeated single and continuous overground walking trials. Design: Test-retest. Setting: University laboratory. Participants: Young (n=13) and older adult (n=14) women volunteers. Interventions: Not applicable. Main Outcome Measures: Spatiotemporal data were collected from an 8.1-m GAITRite mat during 10 trials of discrete single walks and 10 laps of a continuous circuit presented in random order over 2 separate test s..