Restoring the complexity of walking in the elderly and its impact on clinical measures around the risk of falls.

Frontiers in network physiology Pub Date : 2025-04-02 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fnetp.2025.1532700
Samar Ezzina, Simon Pla, Didier Delignières
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Abstract

Introduction: The hypothesis of the loss of complexity with aging and disease has received strong attention. Especially, the decrease of complexity of stride interval series in older people, during walking, was shown to correlate with falling propensity. However, recent experiments showed that a restoration of walking complexity in older people could occur through the prolonged experience of synchronized walking with a younger companion. This result was interpreted as the consequence of a complexity matching effect. Experiment: The aim of the present study was to analyze the link between the restoration of walking complexity in older people and clinical measures usually used in the context of rehabilitation or follow-up of older people. Results: We evidenced a link between restoring complexity, improving overall health and reducing fear of falling. In addition, we showed that 3 weeks of complexity matching training can have a positive effect on complexity up to 2 months post-protocol. Finally, we showed that the restoration of walking complexity obtained in the previous works is not guide-dependent.

恢复老年人行走的复杂性及其对跌倒风险的临床措施的影响。
随着衰老和疾病而丧失复杂性的假说已经受到了强烈的关注。特别是,老年人在步行过程中步幅间隔序列复杂性的降低与跌倒倾向有关。然而,最近的实验表明,老年人步行复杂性的恢复可以通过与年轻同伴长时间同步行走来实现。这一结果被解释为复杂性匹配效应的结果。实验:本研究的目的是分析老年人步行复杂性的恢复与老年人康复或随访中常用的临床措施之间的联系。结果:我们证明了恢复复杂性、改善整体健康和减少跌倒恐惧之间的联系。此外,我们表明,3周的复杂性匹配训练可以在协议后2个月对复杂性产生积极影响。最后,我们证明了先前工作中获得的步行复杂性的恢复不依赖于向导。
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