Spatiotemporal gait parameters for patients with Parkinson's disease compared with normal individuals.

Background: Gait initiation is a major motor problem for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). To understand the gait initiation in patients with PD, fluctuation on the first three steps of initiation was examined

Methods: Force distribution measurement platform was used to record gait initiation in 10 patients with PD and healthy participants. Step length, step time and step width, as well as its coefficient of variation (CV) were investigated

Results: The findings demonstrated significant main effect of group on step length (p < 0.