… stepping over obstacles, analyses have focused on the successful trials to understand adaptive
gait. … source of information regarding the gait characteristics underlying trip-related falls. …

… gait speed (baseline) trials. They then completed the following randomly … gait adaptability
trials: obstacle avoidance, short stepping target, long stepping target and no target/obstacle …

… step over obstacles as we walk. This poses a greater threat to the postural control system than
level walking for two main reasons: first, the task of stepping over an obstacle … the obstacle …

… gait parameters affect the kinetic gait parameters when … stepping over the second obstacle
than when stepping over the first obstacle regardless of the interval was one-step, two-step, or …

… The long obstacle did not cause a disproportionate change in step length in people with PD,
… were developed for each of the gait characteristics to evaluate the within (obstacle type and …

… In addition to stepping over obstacles in our way, it is often necessary, or at least desirable,
… effects of manipulating vision on stepping and balance characteristics. One possible reason …

… , and stepped over the obstacle with their … step over the obstacle. Participants were allotted
4–6 practice trials followed by 8 collected “control” trials stepping over the “floating” obstacle …

… aged, and older adults) stepped over an obstacle placed in a 15 m walkway… Stepping over
obstacles increases gait challenge, with the challenge systematically increasing with obstacle …

… features … gait speed, shorter step length, and wider step width than men during BW. In OBS,
we predicted women would show slower gait, shorter and wider steps, and cross the obstacle …

… reliability of characteristics of virtual obstacle crossing and … of the ability to make step
adjustments nor for the prediction … no differences in obstacle crossing characteristics were found …