A groundbreaking study suggests that a seemingly minor change in your stride can be an incredibly early and important marker ...

This study shows that preoperative gait speed is a strong predictor of patient-reported pain relief, function, and joint ...

Gait speed testing might improve decisions about treatment intensity for people 75 years or older with blood cancer, say researchers. "The additional information this simple clinical test reveals ...

Older people are more likely to lack the strength needed to survive the recovery following heart surgery, and scientists from McGill University in Montreal are measuring “gait speed” as a test for ...

Walking speed greater than 1 m/s in the preoperative period can significantly foretell better functional recovery after total ...

Total hip arthroplasty (hip replacement) is a common treatment for hip osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease caused by cartilage in the hip joint wearing down. However, clinical outcomes vary ...

MONTREAL, QC — Slow gait speed is an independent predictor of major morbidity and mortality but also operative mortality in adults aged 60 years or older undergoing cardiac surgery, according to the ...

The slower walkers were shown to have accelerated aging on a 19-measure scale created by researchers. The research was published last week in the journal JAMA Network Open. “The thing that’s really ...

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(WASHINGTON, June 5, 2019) -- How slow--or fast--older individuals with blood cancers are able to walk four meters (about 13 feet) holds critical information about their overall health and strongly ...