Table 1.
Parameter | Unit | Examples PD | Examples MS |
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Spatiotemporal, kinematic gait parameters | |||
Gait cycle / stride duration | s, ms | Blin et al., 1990; Ginis et al., 2017; Shah et al., 2020 | Benedetti et al., 1999; Straudi et al., 2013; Müller et al., 2021 |
Cadence | steps/min | Curtze et al., 2015; Horak et al., 2016; Iijima et al., 2017 | Martin et al., 2006; Straudi et al., 2013; Leone et al., 2018 |
Gait velocity / speed | m/s, cm/s | Herman et al., 2014; Galna et al., 2015; Fino and Mancini, 2020 | Benedetti et al., 1999; Remelius et al., 2012; Müller et al., 2021 |
Stride / step length | m | Rochester et al., 2014; Ferrari et al., 2016; Cebi et al., 2020 | Martin et al., 2006; Remelius et al., 2012; Leone et al., 2018 |
Double support time | % cycle, % stride | Blin et al., 1990; Curtze et al., 2015; Shah et al., 2020 | Benedetti et al., 1999; Straudi et al., 2013; Leone et al., 2018 |
Stride / step time variability | s | Herman et al., 2014; Galna et al., 2015; Ma et al., 2020a | Moon et al., 2015; Allali et al., 2016; Kalron et al., 2018 |
Knee (lower leg) ROM | degree | Dewey et al., 2014; Curtze et al., 2015; Horak et al., 2016 | Rodgers et al., 1999; Filli et al., 2018; Valet et al., 2021 |
Postural stability parameters | |||
Postural sway area / range | m/s, cm | Mancini et al., 2012a; Dewey et al., 2014; Horak et al., 2016 | Spain et al., 2012; McLoughlin et al., 2014; Solomon et al., 2015 |
Postural sway jerk | m2/s5 | Mancini et al., 2012a; Dewey et al., 2014; Horak et al., 2016 | Sun et al., 2018; Arpan et al., 2020; Gera et al., 2020 |
RMS amplitude | m/s, cm | Mancini et al., 2012b; Nantel et al., 2012; Chen et al., 2018 | Sun et al., 2018; Santinelli et al., 2019; Arpan et al., 2020 |
RMS, Root mean square.
Three exemplary publications are listed for each parameter. Note that the exact parameter definition might vary between references.