Spatio-temporal gait data of normal child and young people

[Saikat Chakraborty]

I'm a PhD scholar, working on human gait.I'm going to build a normal gait model but there is an insufficiency of input data. I have checked CGA normative database, but most of the data is related to joint kinematics and EMG signal. Also in ISB web-site, there is no sufficient data.I need spatio-temporal gait data (over-ground & treadmill) of the normal child as well as young people.


Can anyone suggest me about some reliable source for this type of data?

[Morgan Sangeux]

Re: Spatio-temporal gait data of normal child and young people

Hi Saikat,

We searched for spatio-temporal gait data in children for our recent article on normalisation. In most cases, the individual points were not available (unless you use engauge digitizer to extract the points from the graphs) but I have found two linked articles (here and here) that provide age means for children aged 5 to 13 and young adults aged 18 to 27. That should give you a starting point.

Cheers,

[Chris Kirtley]

Re: Spatio-temporal gait data of normal child and young people

Jeff Hausdorff made his data available on Physionet some years ago. I can't find it now, but here's my spreadsheet of it. This is the reference paper:

https://jneuroengrehab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-0003-2-19

[Marilynn Wyatt]

Re: Spatio-temporal gait data of normal child and young people

There are spatio-temporal gait data published in a monograph for typically children ages 1-7: The Development of Mature Walking. Sutherland, David; Olshen, Richard; Biden, Edmund; Wyatt, Marilynn. Mac Keith Press, 1988.
I hope you find this helpful and can find a copy of the book.

[Joy Ku]

Re: Spatio-temporal gait data of normal child and young people

Pieter Meyns has made a gait markerset available for children with cerebral palsy (hemiplegia n=5, 9.00 ± 2.28; diplegia n=4, age 10.50 ±1.66) and typically developing children (n=5, age 8.40 ± 1.50). You can access the data at https://simtk.org/projects/cp-child-gait/. SimTK has a number of other datasets available, which you might search to see if there are other ones that meet your needs.

[Ross Miller]

Re: Spatio-temporal gait data of normal child and young people

Saikat, not sure if this is very useful, but this equation gives a ballpark estimate of preferred stride length (SL) as a function of walking speed (v) and leg length (L):

SL = 2.5*L*(v/sqrt(g*L))^0.6

where g = gravitational acceleration. The original reference is Alexander & Maloiy (1984) in Journal of Zoology and you can find a more recent use of it in Srinivasan (2011) in Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Not sure if it is valid for children.

Hope this helps,
Ross

[Saikat Chakraborty]

Re: Spatio-temporal gait data of normal child and young people

But sir, the spreadsheet file refers to the data of children, whereas, the link you provided, refer to a work which was done on older people. Can you plz provide me the correct link to the paper which actually refers that spreadsheet data?

[Saikat Chakraborty]

Re: Spatio-temporal gait data of normal child and young people

Hi Saikat,

We searched for spatio-temporal gait data in children for our recent article on normalisation. In most cases, the individual points were not available (unless you use engauge digitizer to extract the points from the graphs) but I have found two linked articles (here and here) that provide age means for children aged 5 to 13 and young adults aged 18 to 27. That should give you a starting point.

Cheers,

The articles (link) which you provided, give mean spatio-temporal data for each selected age group. But I need raw data of each and every child/young people. Is there any source known to you?

[Chris Kirtley]

Re: Spatio-temporal gait data of normal child and young people

Must be this one then:

http://jap.physiology.org/content/86/3/1040.short

[Morgan Sangeux]

Re: Spatio-temporal gait data of normal child and young people

The articles (link) which you provided, give mean spatio-temporal data for each selected age group. But I need raw data of each and every child/young people. Is there any source known to you?

Unfortunately no, but the mean for each age was ok to work as a comparison for me.
Since then, I have found a few other studies providing data on a per age, or per age group basis, but raw data are very scarce.
Jeff's data above is almost the best I was able to find (thanks Chris for the file). Although Jeff's data may not be directly comparable with the kind of data we collect in a gait lab since the walking speed (and stride length) is an average over 400m, only cadence (stride time) is available on a stride per stride basis.

[Saikat Chakraborty]

Re: Spatio-temporal gait data of normal child and young people

Must be this one then:

http://jap.physiology.org/content/86/3/1040.short

Thanks, Dr.Kirtley for providing the link to this valuable data.