Summary & Purpose
Older adults often suffer an accidental fall when navigating challenging surfaces during common locomotor tasks, such as walking and ascending stairs. This study examined the effect of slick and uneven surfaces on lower limb joint work in older and younger adults while walking and ascend-ing stairs. Fifteen young (18–25 years) and 12 older (>65 years) adults had stance phase positive limb and joint work quantified during walking and stair ascent tasks on a normal, slick, and une-ven surface, which was then submitted to a two-way mixed model ANOVA for analysis. The stair ascent required greater limb, and hip, knee, and ankle work than walking (all p < 0.001), with par-ticipants producing greater hip and knee work during both the walk and stair ascent (both p < 0.001). Surface, but not age, impacted positive limb work. Participants increased limb (p < 0.001), hip (p = 0.010), and knee (p < 0.001) positive work when walking over the challenging surfaces, and increased hip (p = 0.015), knee (p < 0.001), and ankle (p = 0.010) work when ascending stairs with challenging surfaces. Traversing a challenging surface during both walking and stair ascent tasks required greater work production from the large proximal hip and knee musculature, which may increase the likelihood of an accidental fall in older adults.
Date of Publication or Submission
10-9-2023
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18122/cobr_data.4.boisestate
Funding Citation
This study was supported by grants from the NIH National Institute on Aging (R15AG059655) and NIH Institutional Development Awards (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P20GM109095).
Single Dataset or Series?
Series
Data Format
*.csv
File Size
11.7 KB
Data Attributes
The data files contain participant-based means for dominant limb total limb, and hip, knee and ankle positive work for young (18 to 25 years) and older adults (over 65 years) during a walk and stair ascent task over normal, slick and uneven surfaces.
Time Period
2018-2020
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Recommended Citation
Wenzel, Thomas A.; Hunt, Nicholas L.; Holcomb, Amy E.; Fitzpatrick, Clare K.; and Brown, Tyler N., "Dataset for Surface, but Not Age Impact Lower Limp Joint Work During Walk and Stair Ascent" (2023). Center for Orthopaedic and Biomechanics Research Data Repository. 4.
https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cobr_data/4