Funding: Shriners Foundation Description: Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a group of disorders affecting the development of movement and posture and is characterized by many functional impairments of which include poor balance, difficulties in gait and deterioration of...
Description. Injuries from falls are a major public health issue. Falls often occur when the environment restricts the range of possible movements and drives the walking human out of the safety zone into less stable behavior. We use obstacles obstructing a walkway as...
Description. Parkinson’s disease is characterized by its progressive movement problems, but deficits in sensory function and processing can exacerbate these problems and have a negative impact on balance and function. By using movements of an immersive visual...
Funding: Shriners Foundation Description. The goal of this project is to characterize neural control strategies underlying walking in children with cerebral palsy (CP) to inform the development of new therapeutic approaches. Recent studies have suggested that a...
Funding: The National Science Foundation Description. We investigated how multisensory information Is used to stabilize the gait cycle by stimulating walking subjects with multiple forms of sensory information, including visual, vestibular and proprioceptive....
