Source:Gait & Posture
Author(s): Ali Dostanpor, Catherine A. Dobson, Natalie Vanicek
BackgroundThe gait patterns of women with low bone mineral density (BMD) or osteoporosis have not been thoroughly explored, and when examined, often studied in relation to falls and kyphosis.Research question: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between gait parameters and comfortable, self-selected walking speed and BMD in older post-menopausal women with a range of T-scores (healthy to osteoporotic).Methods3D kinematic and kinetic data were collected from forty-five women mean (SD) age 67.3 (1.4) years during level walking at their preferred speed. Multiple regression analysis explored the explained variance attributable to speed, femoral neck T-score, and age.ResultsThe mean (SD) walking speed 1.40 (0.19) m·s-1 explained the variance in most temporal-spatial, kinematic and joint powers (R2 = 12-68%, P≤0.001). T-score accounted for (R2 = 23%, P≤0.001) of the shared explained variance in stride width. It also increased the explanatory power for knee flexion (R2 = 7%, P≤0.05) and knee range of motion (R2 = 12%, P≤0.01). Power absorption by the knee flexors in terminal swing (K4) was the only power burst resulting in significant slope coefficients for all predictor variables (R2 = 52 and 54%) (P≤0.001) and (R2 = 68%, P≤0.05).SignificanceSpeed alone explained much of the variance of gait parameters, while speed and T-score combined increased the explained variance in some knee variables. Our findings demonstrate that older post-menopausal women with a broad range of T-scores can walk at comfortably fast speeds. The results also suggest that strengthening the hip abductor, knee extensor and flexor muscle groups may benefit the gait patterns of older postmenopausal women with low BMD.
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