Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Gait"
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The effect of knee joint effusion on gait mechanics and muscle activation characteristics in moderate knee osteoarthritis
(2018-08-29)Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevalent joint diseases, and knee effusion, as a manifestation of synovitis, is associated with knee OA clinical outcomes and disease progression. Thesis objectives were i) to ... -
Enhancing Gait Recognition through Edge Detection and Hybrid Feature Extraction Techniques
(2024-08-26)Gait recognition is the process of identifying individuals based on their unique walking patterns. This method has gained importance in biometric systems for its non-intrusive nature and applications in security, ... -
Innovative Clinical Tools for Objectively Measuring Longitudinal Changes in Knee Arthroplasty Patient Gait Kinematics Awaiting Surgery
(2024-04-22)Current clinical management of end-stage knee OA lacks objective functional assessments of patients. Markerless motion capture systems are a new technology that have the potential to facilitate efficient, well-integrated ... -
Modeling the Patient Variability and Hierarchy in Joint-Level Kinematic and Kinetic Function Before and After Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty Surgery
(2017-04-05)The purpose of this study was to comprehensively capture the variability of improvement in knee joint-level biomechanics during walking gait of participants immediately before to one year after TKA, measured objectively ...