KINESIOL 4SS3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Tracking System, Executive Functions, Stroop Effect
12 Apr 2016
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Walking speed, step length and step height decrease. Reduce their walking speed as a precauionary measure. Changes in gait behavior correlated with higher risk of falls. Changes in walking capabiliies atributed to a decrease in cogniive capabiliies (execuive funcion) Risk of falling increases when a person is engaged in walking and doing another acivity (depends on the demand of the task) More pronounced in older people when task requires coninuous visual processing. Visual informaional and processing becomes more crucial when obstacles have to be avoided or when walking over diferent surfaces. This study tries to answer: how diferent walking task diiculies inluence dual-task performance in young and old, whether this impact of diferent locomotor task diiculies difer between visually dominated vs. non-visual secondary tasks. 15 young and 15 older subjects, all lived independently, free of orthopedic and muscular impairments and cogniive impairments. Check: paper and pen, dominant hand and draw an x in each square as fast as possible.
