Gait Signature Journal
Research-backed writing on gait, movement, and what your walk reveals about the health of your brain and body.
The same sensors that count your steps can read the finer texture of how you move. Here is what they capture, why your walk is so personal, and how that data should be treated.
A fall can look like bad luck, but steadiness is something the body builds and can lose gradually. The way you walk quietly tracks it, and much of it can be trained.
Long before you feel wrecked, tiredness starts to reshape how you move. Your walk, and your run, can hint at when to push and when to back off.
You can often read a person's mood in the way they move. Research shows the link runs deeper than intuition, and, encouragingly, it runs in both directions.
Walking looks automatic, but it leans heavily on the brain. That is why the way a person walks after a concussion can reveal effects that balance and memory tests miss.
How fast you walk is one of the most reliable indicators of how well you are aging. Here is what decades of research found, and why a device in your pocket can now read it.