Subjects took two walking tests before and after the study, which assessed distance covered in six minutes and gait speed, respectively.
Normal gait speed improved from 3.9 to 4.1 feet per second and maximum gait speed increased from 5.5 feet to 5.8 feet per second.
Other autoimmune forms include dermatitis herpetiformis, which causes itchy skin lesions, and gluten ataxia, which affects brain tissue, resulting in unsteady gait and lack of motor control.
The chronic, progressive illness is marked by tremors, muscle weakness and a shuffling gait.
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His shambling gait and socks-round-the-ankles appearance belied a tremendous rugby brain born of hard-earned experience.
There has also been a dispute over the name of the complex, which had been known as The Gait and now returned to its old title of City Halls.
Prof Mark Nixon believes that a person's gait and ears are as unique as their fingerprints, adding that they are harder to fake than more traditional forms of identification.
If these efforts to rid my vision of its dark scrim pay off (I admit, they don't always), I greet the sidewalk crush with a wide expanse in my chest and a buoyant gait.
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Today, modern blues makers have adopted a funkier gait and more cocksure vocals than their predecessors, but no visit to the city would be near complete without seeking out a blues hall and getting the blues in person.
As the ball wandered into foul territory and Piazza began a perfunctory gait toward first base, Clemens picked up the barrel of Piazza's shattered bat and threw it at him.
As an individual continues to walk, studies have shown, the brain eventually self-corrects errors and evens out the gait.
The potential of X1 extends to other applications, including rehabilitation, gait modification and offloading large amounts of weight from the wearer.
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Bionic prostheses such as its "Rheo Knee" use artificial intelligence which adapts to the wearer's gait speed and their walking environment.
You can see it in the way they stand a little taller and walk with a different gait than others in law enforcement.
Anderson wore a dark suit that barely contained his stocky frame, and walked with an awkwardly wide gait, as though suffering from a groin injury.
By designing custom hydraulic servos and managing the robot's gait so that it only uses high pressure when it truly needs to (like when it's beginning to take a step), the company hopes to bring that number to 20 percent.
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While title-winning Syracuse teams of the past usually relied on the prowess of some of the top-scoring players in collegiate history Gary Gait, Tom Marechek and the three Powell brothers (Casey, Ryan and Mike) this version of the Orange is a little bit different.
She was heavy and walked with a backward-leaning gait, supporting her belly with one hand, seeming to balance herself as she moved.
Staff analyse a customer's running gait, often on a treadmill and "diagnose" a pair of shoes that will avoid injury.
It contains 12 cameras which measure a person's gait as they walk along it and take pictures of their ears.
It can take a lot of effort to walk for people whose gait isn't smooth, and they are more prone to falls, according to Amy Bastian, director of the Motion Analysis Lab at Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore.
One sprints and one skips, but the difference is in their gait, not their goals.
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They enliven their gait by bumping each others' hips rhythmically and leaping into the air as they walk.
The horses pawed the water and swam with a strange, pop-legged underwater gait.
His legs were short, his gait anything but agile, his dress costly, ill-fitting and extremely wet.
Described by Journal golf columnist John Paul Newport as having "the slightly slouchy gait of an adolescent, " Hossler brought both a steely game and a guileless charm to Olympic.
No two people have yet been found to have the same results, and so far far nobody has been able to replicate somebody else's gait to the extent that it fooled the computer, Professor Nixon said.
In an unpublished study of post-stroke patients, Dr. Bastian and collaborators showed that four weeks of split-belt treadmill training led to improved walking gait for three months.
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