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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Gait Posture. 2009 Feb 7;29(4):634–639. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.01.006

Table 2.

Findings on outcome measures at pre-training (pre), and the end of training (post) by intervention group.

Measure Single-task (ST) balance training (N = 7) Dual-task training: fixed priority (FP) (N = 8) Dual-task training: variable priority (VP) (N = 6) Pa



Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post
Angle (°)
  Narrow walk 1.11 ± 0.62 0.99 ± 0.13 1.47 ± 0.65 1.38 ± 4.60 1.66 ± 0.49 1.09 ± 0.56 .25
  Narrow walk + count 1.36 ± 0.54 0.95 ± 0.33 1.49 ± 0.62 1.04 ± 0.67 1.74 ± 0.49 0.76 ± 0.38 .04
  Obstacle 2.07 ± 0.91 1.74 ± 0.69 1.84 ± 0.66 1.64 ± 0.32 2.56 ± 0.78 2.20 ± 0.66 .86
  Obstacle + Stroop 2.12 ± 0.61 1.85 ± 0.51 2.14 ± 0.47 2.09 ± 0.75 2.71 ± 0.50 2.33 ± 0.82 .54
Rate of response
  Sit + count 36.57 ± 9.98 37.43 ± 6.08 33.75 ± 8.84 42.69 ± 7.29 43.00 ± 18.96 51.00 ± 19.54 .04
  Narrow walk + count 34.00 ± 10.78 32.57 ± 6.40 30.60 ± 7.43 36.75 ± 6.32 39.67 ± 17.95 51.80 ± 20.55 .04
VRT (ms)
  Sit + Stroop 939.54 ± 49.01 952.05 ± 66.64 1104.18 ± 38.75 974.48 ± 52.68 1021.96 ± 44.74 906.95 ± 60.83 .02
  Obstacle + Stroop 936.51 ± 60.66 982.06 ± 56.05 1026.83 ± 47.96 1022.20 ± 44.31 963.53 ± 55.38 938.29 ± 51.16 .21
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Group × time interaction effect.

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