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.