. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 28.

Published in final edited form as: Clin Biomech (Bristol). 2003 Mar;18(3):214–221. doi: 10.1016/s0268-0033(02)00204-8

Table 4.

Peak power at the hip, knee, and ankle: all values are absolute values of the maximum peak joint powers normalized to body mass (W/kg) during the stance phase of the stepping activities for the dominant limb (standard deviation)

Measurement	FS	LS
Sagittal plane
Hip peak power
Ascending	1.50 (0.46)^**	1.29 (0.39)
Descending	1.43 (−0.54)^*	1.08 (−0.62)^**
Knee peak power
Ascending	1.55 (0.52)	1.43 (0.42)
Descending	1.43 (−0.55)^*	1.58 (−0.70)
Ankle peak power
Ascending	0.22 (0.16)^**	0.48 (0.23)
Descending	0.16 (−0.17)^,^**	0.56 (−0.29)

^**

Statistically significantly different from the LS ascending phase.

Statistically significantly different from the LS descending phase.

^***

Statistically significantly different from the FS ascending phase.