Table 2.
Acute effects of acoustic cueing: comparison of gait with and without cue conditioning. Data are expressed as mean ± sd. The right column reports the p values for group comparison.
| Walking without cue conditioning |
Walking with cue conditioning |
p value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of strides | 7.2 ± 3.3 | 7.3 ± 2.5 | NS |
| Stride duration (ms) | 1250.5 ± 317.2 | 1374.8 ± 381.0 | <0.05 |
| Stride length (cm) | 83.5 ± 25.7 | 102.1 ± 31.6 | <0.05 |
| Stance (% of stride) | 73.8 ± 7.5 | 75.5 ± 4.6 | NS |
| Swing (% of stride) | 26.2 ± 7.5 | 24.5 ± 4.6 | NS |
| Speed (m/s) | 0.63 ± 0.22 | 0.69 ± 0.32 | NS |