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walking

In sport, racing on foot while never taking both feet off the ground at once. The advancing leg must also be straight as soon as it makes contact with the ground. Walking has been an Olympic event since the early 1900s.
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(3) For 197 elderly patients after hemiplegic stroke, Friedman (4) showed that almost all of the patients who had attained the ability to ambulate independently by day 7 were more likely to maintain gait independence in the few months afterward than those who could not walk without human assistance by day 7.
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