Your steps could say more about your brain than you think. A new study shows that changes in how you walk—especially how long each step is—may help flag early signs of Alzheimer's or other ...

Jim Bowman spends hours in his workshop turning imperfect pieces of wood into art. He learned the art of woodturning as a child and picked the hobby back up in retirement. “I let the wood speak to me, ...

When most people think of autism, they picture sensory sensitivities, repetitive behaviors or social difficulties. But research shows that early signs can also show up in the way a child walks, often ...

Walking patterns reveal more about health status than many realize. Subtle changes in stride, balance or foot placement may serve as early indicators of various medical conditions, often appearing ...

Real-world gait metrics differed significantly between people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and healthy older adults and worsened progressively with disease severity. People with ...

To fill this gap, researchers at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a center supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, used digital technologies to analyze the walking patterns of ...