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Effect of sampling frequency on fractal fluctuations during treadmill walking

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  • Vivien Marmelat
  • Austin Duncan
  • Shane Meltz

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The temporal dynamics of stride-to-stride fluctuations in steady-state walking reveal important information about locomotor control and can be quantified using so-called fractal analyses, notably the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA). Gait dynamics are often collected during treadmill walking using 3-D motion capture to identify gait events from kinematic data. The sampling frequency of motion capture systems may impact the precision of event detection and consequently impact the quantification of stride-to-stride variability. This study aimed i) to determine if collecting multiple walking trials with different sampling frequency affects DFA values of spatiotemporal parameters during treadmill walking, and ii) to determine the reliability of DFA values across downsampled conditions. Seventeen healthy young adults walked on a treadmill while their gait dynamics was captured using different sampling frequency (60, 120 and 240 Hz) in each condition. We also compared data from the highest sampling frequency to downsampled versions of itself. We applied DFA to the following time series: step length, time and speed, and stride length, time and speed. Reliability between experimental conditions and between downsampled conditions were measured with 1) intraclass correlation estimates and their 95% confident intervals, calculated based on a single-measurement, absolute-agreement, two-way mixed-effects model (ICC 3,1), and 2) Bland-Altman bias and limits of agreement. Both analyses revealed a poor reliability of DFA results between conditions using different sampling frequencies, but a relatively good reliability between original and downsampled spatiotemporal variables. Collectively, our results suggest that using sampling frequencies of 120 Hz or 240 Hz provide similar results, but that using 60 Hz may alter DFA values. We recommend that gait kinematics should be collected at around 120 Hz, which provides a compromise between event detection accuracy and processing time.

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  • Vivien Marmelat & Austin Duncan & Shane Meltz, 2019. "Effect of sampling frequency on fractal fluctuations during treadmill walking," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(11), pages 1-11, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0218908
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218908
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    1. Nikita A Kuznetsov & Christopher K Rhea, 2017. "Power considerations for the application of detrended fluctuation analysis in gait variability studies," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(3), pages 1-14, March.
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