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To circumvent concept drift, adaptation strategies could be used to retrain a pattern recognition system, which could lead to comparable error rates over multiple days. In this study, we investigated the error rate development over one week and compared three adaptation strategies to reduce the error rate increase. The three adaptation strategies were based on entropy, on backward prediction and a combination of backward prediction and entropy. Ten able-bodied subjects were measured on four measurement days while performing gait-related activities. During the measurement electromyography and kinematics were recorded. The three adaptation strategies were implemented and compared against the baseline error rate and against adaptation using the ground truth labels. It can be concluded that without adaptation the baseline error rate increases significantly from day 1 to 2, but plateaus on day 2, 3 and 7. Of the three tested adaptation strategies, entropy based adaptation showed the smallest increase in error rate over time. 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