Kiran Karunakaran, PhD, research scientist in the Center for Mobility and Rehabilitation Engineering and director of the ...

Research areas: Healthy aging, Executive functions, Motor control, Cognitive training, Multi-task performance, Gait and Balance, Hearing loss, Cognitive impairment, Cognitive reserve My research ...

Gait and technique – although considered when we first start running and buy new running shoes – is another key component of performance that runners often overlook during their training cycles.

one leg is dominant and so replicates the running gait. When we run ... which requires strength, balance, stability and coordination. So, the more unilateral exercises we can include in our ...

The funding will support her research on using cognitive, integrated motor training to improve gait and balance and reduce falls in older adults with mild cognitive impairment. The study is in ...

Knee extension exercises assessed lower body strength. Gait: Participants walked at their own pace on a designated path while a motion analysis system captured their movements. Balance ...

“It’s also an exercise that not only improves your coordination and balance but can be great to ... tend to find out that they’ve got gait issues when they’ve picked up their nth injury.