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MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR DELAY-TIME OF GAIT EVENT DUE TO A DUAL-TASK DURING WALKING

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University, BK21 Plus Research Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University, 268 Chungwon-Daero, Chungju 27478, Korea

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JEONG WOO SEO

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University, BK21 Plus Research Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University, 268 Chungwon-Daero, Chungju 27478, Korea

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JIN SOO LEE

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University, BK21 Plus Research Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University, 268 Chungwon-Daero, Chungju 27478, Korea

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JUNG GIL KIM

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University, BK21 Plus Research Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University, 268 Chungwon-Daero, Chungju 27478, Korea

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JUN HYEONG CHO

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University, BK21 Plus Research Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University, 268 Chungwon-Daero, Chungju 27478, Korea

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GYE RAE TACK

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University, BK21 Plus Research Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Konkuk University, 268 Chungwon-Daero, Chungju 27478, Korea

E-mail Address: grtack@kku.ac.kr

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219519419400645Cited by:2 (Source: Crossref)

This article is part of the issue:

Special Selection on Biomechanics in Medical Applications-Part II
Guest Editors: Esteban Peña Pitarch, Agnès Drochon and Eddie Y. K. Ng

Abstract

During walking, attuning the heel contact to the external cueing is attentional and physical demanding. Based on this point of view, this is a preliminary study conducted for identifying the temporal accuracy of subjects for rhythmic auditory cueing, and to identify the balancing ability of the elderly based on this information. A measurement system was constructed to measure the motion delay time for the given rhythm and a pilot gait experiment was conducted for young adults while performing a cognitive dual task. The system consisted of a metronome and an accelerometer sensor measurement unit and is implemented as a program using LabVIEW. This pilot gait experiment measured individual delay times in 15 healthy adults in their 20s under two conditions: metronome walking (MET) and metronome walking with backward counting (MET+BC). Consequently, the delay time of MET and MET+BC conditions was $128.8 \pm 29.0$ $128.8 \pm 29.0$ msec and $200.2 \pm 37.0$ $200.2 \pm 37.0$ msec, respectively ( $p < 0.05$ $p < 0.05$ ). Further experiments with the elderly will be needed to confirm whether such delay time can be used as an indicator for balancing ability.

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