Evolution of joint power across the lifespan during walking

Bernard X. W. Liew, Rachel Senden, David Rügamer, Kenneth Meijer, Qichang Mei, Kim Duffy, Kevin Netto, Matthew Taylor

Ankle push-off power appears to reach maturity in the 3rd decade of life. A strict temporal correspondence between a decline in ankle push-off power (A2) with age and a compensatory increase in hip pull-off power (H3) was not observed, challenging the distal-to-proximal alteration in propulsion strategy commonly attributed to the ageing process.