Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Walking

Walking is a fundamental mode of human bipedal locomotion and the most accessible form of physical activity, an aerobic, weight-bearing exercise produced by the rhythmic, alternating action of the lower-limb muscles within the gait cycle. As a low-intensity, sustainable activity requiring no equipment, it contribute…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 47× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2693-1176 🗓 Reviewed October 2026

Overview

Walking is a fundamental mode of human bipedal locomotion and the most accessible form of physical activity, an aerobic, weight-bearing exercise produced by the rhythmic, alternating action of the lower-limb muscles within the gait cycle. As a low-intensity, sustainable activity requiring no equipment, it contributes substantially to daily energy expenditure and confers broad health benefits, supporting cardiovascular and metabolic function, musculoskeletal health, balance, and mental wellbeing, and it serves as a practical target for interventions that increase overall activity. Walking is also a clinically informative behavior: gait performance, muscle-activation patterns, and walking capacity reflect neurological and physiological status and are altered in conditions such as Parkinson's disease and other disorders of movement, mobility, and aging. The peer-reviewed research collected here in the journal's global-health and allied physiological and neurological corpus reflects these themes, including comparison of walking performance under cold and warm conditions, muscle-activation signals during gait in Parkinson's disease, the physiology of muscular contraction, activity and cardiovascular risk screening in people living with HIV, non-pharmacological interventions for disrupted sleep in dementia, cognitive and aerobic training effects on memory and executive function in aging, deep brain stimulation outcomes in Parkinson's disease, and functional measures relevant to mobility. Together they situate walking at the intersection of physical activity, gait physiology, and the management of movement and aging.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 47 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Walking, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Global Health (ISSN 2693-1176).

Journal editorial board
Andrew Hall · United Kingdom Aroonsri Mongkolchati · Thailand Dazhi Fan · China

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