INFLUENCE OF OPTICAL STREAMING TREADMILL WALKING ON GAIT PARAMETERS IN HEALTHY PARTICIPANTS

Background: Gait plays a vital role in our activities of daily living. Many neurological and non-neurological conditions have gait as one of the complication. Optical streaming is a modified and simpler version of virtual reality that can be used in gait rehabilitation with gait deficits Objectives: The aim of this study is to find out the influence of optical streaming treadmill walking on gait parameters in healthy individuals. Materials and methods: An observational study. 348 healthy participants were included, where all the participants had undergone three phases of the study i.e. normal walking, treadmill walking and optical streaming with treadmill walking. Video recording with Kinovia software to identify the gait parameter variation in phase II and III whereas self-prepared feedback questionnaire was prepared for influence of optical streaming and comfortness Results: There is a significant difference in distance covered between phase II and Phase III. There was no significant difference in gait parameters like stride lengths, step length and width of Phase II and Phase III. Whereas there was a positive correlation between Phase II and Phase III step length (p=0.001) and stride length (p=0.003). Conclusion: Treadmill walking with optical streaming has a positive influence on gait and level of comfortness as compare to only Treadmill walking. Also optical streaming with treadmill walking can be one of the alternative techniques for gait training.