Temporal Variables Disorder of The Gait Cycle in Parkinson’s Disease

Abstract

The biometric method which is involved with

defining pattern of movement of human limbs is called Gait.

Though gait has a fixed rhythmic pattern, in case of people

who are affected with neurological disease such as- Parkinson's

disease (PD) the gait pattern gets distorted from normal gait

pattern. In this paper, temporal variables of gait cycles are

analyzed to determine the deficit in the gait cycle in PD

patients. Gait cycle of 10 PD patients and 10 Controlled

subjects are examined in this paper. A comparative analysis

was done in respect of temporal variables such as- Single Limb

Support Time and Double Limb Support Time. From the

examination and investigation, it is apparent that the temporal

factors of the gait cycle of PD patients are sufficiently changed

in regard to the controlled subjects, all the more explicitly PD

patients invest more energy in the two limbs than a single limb

of a gait cycle which is absolutely in switch of the controlled

subject.