To quantify habitual walking speed and estimate the prevalence of low habitual walking speed (<0.8m/s and <0.5m/s) in nursing home residents; and secondarily to gain some insight into whether demographic, health, and functional outcomes could predict the nursing home residents' walking speed.
Informed by gender theory, the fall of the euro and some debauched, global-sourced Berlin club music, Shaking the Habitual walks a tightrope strung uneasily – but compellingly – between the head and the body.
Taking his title from the opening stage direction in Waiting for Godot, Byrne photographed anonymous stretches of roadside in the Dublin and Wicklow mountains: such places as might have been frequented by Samuel Beckett as a young man, on his habitual walks with his father.
Participants will be asked to perform the TUG at their self-selected habitual walking speed.
Most frequently used outcome measures were habitual walking speed (22 trials) and timed-up-and-go test (TUG, 16 trials).
After training, the intervention group increased habitual walking speed by 0.149 m/s (p < 0.001) compared with the control group.
The short term primary outcome (at 3 and 6 mo) is Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) including 2.44 m habitual walking speed, five chair rises timed and standing balance tests [ 34].
After intervention, the intervention group increased their habitual walking speed by 0.149 m/s (0.54 km/h; p < 0.001) compared with the control group.
Usual (habitual) walking speed was tested by the 10 m walk test suggested by Lindemann et al, 29 which excludes the first 2.5 m of walking from the analysis.
29, 30 Indeed, habitual walking speed was significantly lower in the OA group compared with the NA group, a result confirmed by Waters et al 31, 32 Additionally, a higher proportion among our OA group (OA: 19% vs NA: 13%) showed OA of the hand and finger joints, which may explain 33 the lower handgrip strength of this group.
