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The purpose was to determine if planned gait termination can identify acute and
lingering motor control strategy alterations in post-concussion individuals.
Controls completed two standard gait and five planned gait termination trials
once while concussed individuals were tested on Day-1 and Day-10 post-concussion.
Dependent variables included gait velocity and normalized, relative to standard
gait, peak propulsive and braking forces. Control and only Day-1 post-concussion
gait velocity differed. Normalized peak propulsive and braking forces were
altered on both Day-1 and Day-10. Altered propulsive and braking forces persisted
despite all concussion participants achieving their baseline values on standard
concussion clinical tests. Thus gait termination can detect both acute and
lingering motor control strategy alterations following concussion.
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