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Published in final edited form as: J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2010 Oct;81(10):1105–1111. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.202556

Table 2.

Gait and sequential hand and arm movement time (± standard deviation) at baseline, 1 day, and at 1 and 3 months after the tDCS and sham intervention

Timed tests (sec)		Baseline	1 day post-inter-vention	p value (95% CI)	1 month post-inter-vention	p value (95% CI)	3 months post-inter-vention	p value (95% CI)
Timed tests (sec)	tDCS sham		1 day post-inter-vention	p value (95% CI)	1 month post-inter-vention	p value (95% CI)	3 months post-inter-vention	p value (95% CI)
Gait ^*	on	8.7 ± 2.4 8.6 ± 2.6	7.2 ± 1.6 7.6 ± 1.5	0.43 (−1.5, 1.4)	7.0 ± 1.2 8.7 ± 3.7	0.87 (−2.1, 2.5)	7.2 ± 1.5 8.8 ± 4.2	0.57 (−8.0, 4.4)
Gait ^*	off	9.7 ± 3.6 9.5 ± 4.1	7.5 ± 1.5 9.8 ± 4.7	0.0019 (1.0, 4.3)	7.6 ± 1.4 10.9 ± 7.3	0.19 (−1.1, 5.5)	9.0 ± 4.8 9.7 ± 4.6	0.30 (−0.7, 2.3)
Hand and arm movements	on	12.3±3.5 12.3±4.0	8.5 ± 1.8 10.5 ± 2.3	0.0021 (0.8, 3.2)	9.1 ± 2.0 10.5 ± 2.3	0.0299 (0.1, 2.2)	9.0 ± 1.8 10.4±2.5	0.0075 (0.4, 2.7)
Hand and arm movements	off	14.5±4.5 14.4±5.3	8.9 ± 1.8 11.1 ± 2.6	<.0001 (1.3, 3.2)	9.4 ± 1.9 11.7 ± 3.8	0.0147 (0.4, 3.7)	9.7 ± 2.0 11.6±4.0	0.0238 (0.3, 3.6)

Gait measurements excluding a patient with extreme outliers. Results of tDCS and sham groups are presented in first and second row, respectively. 95% confidence intervals were obtained from the linear mixed effects models.