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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 18.
Published in final edited form as: Gait Posture. 2011 Apr 7;34(1):65–70. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2011.03.013

Table 2.

Means ± SD for gait measures across diagnostic groups for standard walk and tandem walk conditions

Standard walk
 Tandem walk
Control ET patients Control ET patients
Measures related to gait speed
Velocity (m/sec) 0.94 ± 0.25 0.76 ± 0.26*** 0.27 ± 0.13 0.20 ± 0.13**
Cadence (steps/min) 102.90 ± 10.36 92.85 ± 14.8*** 52.05 ± 17.28 41.17 ± 18.55**
Step Length (m) 0.51 ± 0.09 0.46 ± 0.13 0.28 ± 0.067 0.28 ± 0.074
Measures related to dynamic balance
Double Support percent 33.83 ± 6.79 39.01 ± 12.87* 55.93 ± 15.83 59.49 ± 21.28
Support base (m) 0.11 ± 0.04 0.11 ± 0.03 0.035 ± 0.026 0.044 ± 0.031
Tandem mis-steps NA NA 2.23 ± 3.68 4.43 ± 4.67**
Measure related to gait symmetry
Step time difference (sec) 0.03 ± 0.03 0.05 ± 0.07** 0.46 ± 0.68 0.62 ± 0.59
Measures related to gait variability
Stride length CoV 5.2 ± 7.35 5.7 ± 5.5 43.62 ± 23.74 48.2 ± 25.85
Swing time CoV 7.31 ± 5.7 7.64 ± 6.14 76.03 ± 97.63 63.47 ± 34.99

NA= not applicable.

*

p < 0.01.

**

p < 0.005.

***

p < 0.001.