Exposure to trips and slips with increasing unpredictability while walking can improve balance recovery responses with minimum predictive gait alterations

• Yoshiro Okubo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: y.okubo@neura.edu.au

  Affiliations Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Community Medicine and Public Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1767-0230

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• Matthew A. Brodie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Daina L. Sturnieks,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Cameron Hicks,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Hilary Carter,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Barbara Toson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Stephen R. Lord

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Community Medicine and Public Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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