Table 3.

Kinematic changes due to the treatment.

Scenario	Before treatment	After treatment	P value
Touch
Time [s]	4.42 ± 1.62	2.96 ± 0.65	0.002a
Velocity [m/s]	0.076 ± 0.021	0.082 ± 0.024	0.074a
Jerk metric [1/s2]	−11.82 ± 2.56	−12.76 ± 2.44	0.273a
Normalized jerk [adim]	1332.55 ± 1336.04	341.00 ± 270.02	0.006b
8-shape
Time [s]	16.64 ± 10.50	10.50 ± 3.96	0.002b
Velocity [m/s]	0.100 ± 0.022	0.089 ± 0.017	0.943a
Jerk metric [1/s2]	−9.50 ± 2.49	−11.64 ± 2.15	0.012a
Normalized jerk [adim]	26304.06 ± 41387.15	7851.91 ± 21227.78	0.013b

The statistical significance value was considered for P ≤ 0.05, emphasized in bold.

^aWilcoxon signed-rank test.

^bPaired-Samples t test.