Besides, our proposed measures significantly correlated with measures previously suggested in the literature to assess gait stability, indicating a similar trend in gait stability revealed by them. 17.2% (32.5%) and 26.3% (34.0%) of the measured trajectories of the COM position and velocity during low (high) perturbations went outside the ExFSR limits, for non-disabled and disabled individuals, respectively. We quantified perturbed walking of fifteen non-disabled individuals and three individuals with a disability, and calculated our proposed ExFSR-based measures. We proposed novel stability measures based on the proximity of the body’s centre of mass (COM) position and velocity to the ExFSR limits. We introduced the concept of ‘Extended Feasible Stability Region (ExFSR)’ that characterizes walking stability for the duration of an entire step. This study aimed to introduce and evaluate novel biomechanical measures for loss-of-balance under various perturbed walking conditions. However, such measures are unable to quantify the instantaneous risk of loss-of-balance as a function of gait parameters, body sway, and physiological and perturbation conditions.

Walking stability has been assessed through gait variability or existing biomechanical measures.

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