Female participants from 16 randomly selected walk-in clinics, previously stratified to represent all administrative regions and urban and rural settings, who were 18 years or older, were surveyed during May to August 2007 using the WAST-Short and PRIME-MD questionnaires.
The majority of participants (n=12, 60%) selected walking as the central activity.
Children were asked to walk at a self- selected walking speed along a 10 m walkway to capture five successful trials i.e. uninterrupted foot strike on force platform.
The participant's natural self selected walking speed was determined prior to the measurements and metronome and timing gaits used to ensure the walking trials did not exceed ±5% of the self selected speed.
For bilateral injuries, stance times will likely remain balanced and symmetric if injuries are comparable between limbs; however, selected walking velocities tend to decrease, and shorter, more-frequent strides are used at a given velocity.
12 Walking speed will be assessed at participants' self-selected walking pace, using a 10-m walk test.
The use of adaptive trials [ 36] may be useful to select walking speeds in regions of greatest change.
For example, if a participants' self-selected walking pace was 90 steps/minute, they will be encouraged to increase his or hers' pace to approximately 100 steps/minute.
Select walking as your mode of transportation.
Select "walking" as mode of transportation.
