Abigail C. Schmitt
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Assistant Professor
Also affiliated: Duke University (2016–2017); Northern Arizona University (2016); University of Florida Health (2019); University of Florida (2017–2021); Duke Energy (United States) (2016); Duke Medical Center (2019); Duke University Hospital (2016); Arkansas Department of Health (2023–2025); Florida College (2020)
Faculty Researcher
Orthopaedics Surgery, College of Medicine
Research Areas
Biomedical Subjects
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Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
Abigail C. Schmitt's research investigates human biomechanics, with a particular focus on gait analysis and mobility in older adults and individuals with Parkinson's disease. Her work examines how factors such as walking environment, medication, and age influence gait parameters like speed and step length. Schmitt has published research on differences in indoor, outdoor, and treadmill walking in healthy young and older adults, as well as the impact of levodopa on gait kinetics in Parkinson's disease patients. She has also explored strategies older adults use to maintain fast walking speeds and the acclimatization of force production during walking in individuals with Parkinson's disease.
Beyond gait, Schmitt's research extends to the biomechanics of athletic movements. She has investigated joint moments during the golf swing in older adults and analyzed data from collegiate baseball pitchers using markerless tracking technology to examine pitch velocity and angular velocity. Her scholarship metrics include an h-index of 12 with 383 citations across 42 publications. Schmitt collaborates with researchers from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Metrics
- h-index: 12
- Publications: 42
- Citations: 389
Selected Publications
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Effects of repeated squat movements on the results of Craig’s test to determine hip anteversion/retroversion (2026)
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The effects of an extemporaneous speech dual-task on center of pressure displacement and velocity in older adults (2026)
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Body composition across cancer stages: preliminary data between sexes from clinical patients with cancer (2026)
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Alterations in gait mechanics during the development of pancreatic cancer-induced cachexia: a pilot study (2026)
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Bone Alterations During the Development of Anorexia Nervosa (2026)Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science OpenAlex
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A Review of Mobility and Gait Changes in Patients with Prostate Cancer: Disease Stage, Symptom, and Treatment-Related Influences (2026)Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science OpenAlex
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Skeletal Muscle Mass and Gait Speed in Patients with Lung Cancer: A Pilot Study (2026)Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science OpenAlex
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The Influence of Standing-Induced Low Back Pain on Spatiotemporal Gait Variables and Trunk–Pelvis Kinematics (2026)
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Motivational consequences influence obstacle crossing strategies (2026)
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Navigating multidimensional obstacles: a comparison between young and older adults and among obstacles (2026)
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The Effects of an Extemporaneous Speech Dual-task on Older Adult Gait Control (2025)
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Gait Biomechanics of Older Adults in Outdoor and Simulated Environments: A Scoping Review (2025)
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Navigating Real-World Obstacles: Comparisons to the Traditional Dowel Rod (2025)
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Predicting elbow valgus torque from upper extremity baseball pitching kinematics using markerless motion capture (2025)
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Normative In-Game Data for Collegiate Baseball Pitchers Using Markerless Tracking Technology (2024)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
- Walking indoors, outdoors, and on a treadmill: Gait differences in healthy young and older adults
- Faster or longer steps: Maintaining fast walking in older adults at risk for mobility disability
- Navigating Real-World Obstacles: Comparisons to the Traditional Dowel Rod
- Navigating Real-World Obstacles: Comparisons to the Traditional Dowel Rod
- The Effects of an Extemporaneous Speech Dual-task on Older Adult Gait Control
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
- Walking indoors, outdoors, and on a treadmill: Gait differences in healthy young and older adults
- Faster or longer steps: Maintaining fast walking in older adults at risk for mobility disability
- Levodopa facilitates improvements in gait kinetics at the hip, not the ankle, in individuals with Parkinson's disease
- Acclimatization of force production during walking in persons with Parkinson's disease
- The effect of limb selection methods on gait analysis in Parkinson's disease
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
- Walking indoors, outdoors, and on a treadmill: Gait differences in healthy young and older adults
- Faster or longer steps: Maintaining fast walking in older adults at risk for mobility disability
- Levodopa facilitates improvements in gait kinetics at the hip, not the ankle, in individuals with Parkinson's disease
- Acclimatization of force production during walking in persons with Parkinson's disease
- The effect of limb selection methods on gait analysis in Parkinson's disease
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
- Navigating Real-World Obstacles: Comparisons to the Traditional Dowel Rod
- Navigating Real-World Obstacles: Comparisons to the Traditional Dowel Rod
- Gait Biomechanics of Older Adults in Outdoor and Simulated Environments: A Scoping Review
- Navigating multidimensional obstacles: a comparison between young and older adults and among obstacles
- Normative In-Game Data for Collegiate Baseball Pitchers Using Markerless Tracking Technology
- Within-subject time series angular velocity differences between in-game high and low velocity fastballs in college baseball pitchers
- Predicting elbow valgus torque from upper extremity baseball pitching kinematics using markerless motion capture
- The effect of limb selection methods on gait analysis in Parkinson's disease
- Visual feedback improves propulsive force generation during treadmill walking in people with Parkinson disease
- Acclimatization of force production during walking in persons with Parkinson's disease
- Visual feedback improves propulsive force generation during treadmill walking in people with Parkinson disease
- Acclimatization of force production during walking in persons with Parkinson's disease
- Visual feedback improves propulsive force generation during treadmill walking in people with Parkinson disease
- Normative In-Game Data for Collegiate Baseball Pitchers Using Markerless Tracking Technology
- Within-subject time series angular velocity differences between in-game high and low velocity fastballs in college baseball pitchers
- Normative In-Game Data for Collegiate Baseball Pitchers Using Markerless Tracking Technology
- Within-subject time series angular velocity differences between in-game high and low velocity fastballs in college baseball pitchers
- The Effects of an Extemporaneous Speech Dual-task on Older Adult Gait Control
- The effects of an extemporaneous speech dual-task on center of pressure displacement and velocity in older adults
- The Effects of an Extemporaneous Speech Dual-task on Older Adult Gait Control
- The effects of an extemporaneous speech dual-task on center of pressure displacement and velocity in older adults
- Levodopa facilitates improvements in gait kinetics at the hip, not the ankle, in individuals with Parkinson's disease
- Levodopa facilitates improvements in gait kinetics at the hip, not the ankle, in individuals with Parkinson's disease
- Faster or longer steps: Maintaining fast walking in older adults at risk for mobility disability
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