Advisor Information
Mukul Mukherjee
Location
Poster #523
Presentation Type
Poster
Start Date
1-3-2019 12:30 PM
End Date
1-3-2019 1:45 PM
Abstract
We propose to isolate the contributions of continuous OF to the orthogonal relationship between balance and gait control during treadmill walking using a series of conditions. Manipulating the direction of OF using a CAREN (Motek Medical, Amsterdam, Netherlands) virtual reality treadmill environment will isolate these visual contributions in human subjects as they walk. We plan to tease out the effect of OF direction on the relationship between gait and balance control by having healthy young adults perform a series of treadmill walking trials while immersed in a VR environment. This will be done by manipulating the direction of walking and the direction of OF through controlled oscillations of the treadmill and the VR environment. As these oscillations diverge from congruent to incongruent conditions, we anticipate that a synchronized change in the gait-balance relationship.
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Visual contributions to balance control during gait
Poster #523
We propose to isolate the contributions of continuous OF to the orthogonal relationship between balance and gait control during treadmill walking using a series of conditions. Manipulating the direction of OF using a CAREN (Motek Medical, Amsterdam, Netherlands) virtual reality treadmill environment will isolate these visual contributions in human subjects as they walk. We plan to tease out the effect of OF direction on the relationship between gait and balance control by having healthy young adults perform a series of treadmill walking trials while immersed in a VR environment. This will be done by manipulating the direction of walking and the direction of OF through controlled oscillations of the treadmill and the VR environment. As these oscillations diverge from congruent to incongruent conditions, we anticipate that a synchronized change in the gait-balance relationship.