Table 2. Performance in non-cued and cued gait tasks for IPD patients obtained pre-, post-training and at the follow-up, and for matched controls.
| Controls | Patients |
Comparisons (significance) |
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| Pre | Post | Follow-up | Pre vs Control | Post vs Pre | Follow-up vs Pre | |||
| Mean (SEM) | Mean (SEM) | Mean (SEM) | Mean (SEM) | P | P | P | ||
| Gait - Non-Cued conditions | ||||||||
| Cadence (step/min) | 100.5 (1.8) | 106.3 (2.3) | 108.0 (2.2) | 109.5 (2.2) | p < 0.05 | p = 0.05 | p < 0.05 | |
| Speed (mm/sec) | 964.4 (25.9) | 898.9 (48.1) | 952.7 (37.0) | 961.5 (39.3) | p = 0.09 | p = 0.05 | p < 0.05 | |
| Stride length (mm) | 1152.0 (22.3) | 1011.7 (44.8) | 1057.5 (37.8) | 1053.7 (38.7) | p < 0.05 | p < 0.05 | p < 0.05 | |
| Stride length variability | 10.4 (0.7) | 10.8 (0.9) | 10.4 (0.9) | 10.8 (0.6) | p = 0.45 | p = 0.27 | p = 0.43 | |
| Stride time (sec) | 1.2 (0.02) | 1.1 (0.03) | 1.1 (0.02) | 1.1 (0.02) | p < 0.05 | p < 0.05 | p < 0.05 | |
| Stride time variability | .0048 (0.0003) | .0048 (0.0008) | .0036 (0.0003) | .0040 (0.0005) | p = 0.19 | p < 0.05 | p = 0.13 | |
| Gait - Cued conditions | ||||||||
| −10% | ||||||||
| Inter-step interval (ms) | 627.7 (14.0) | 610.3 (16.4) | 576.3 (15.9) | 572.3 (14.6) | p = 0.26 | p < 0.05 | p < 0.01 | |
| Sync. accuracy (% of IOI) | 10.8 (8.9) | 22.7 (3.1) | 22.4 (2.0) | 24.9 (2.8) | p < 0.01 | p = 0.32 | p = 0.34 | |
| Sync. variability (% of IOI) | 1.3 (0.3) | 2.0 (0.5) | 2.2 (0.6) | 2.8 (1.0) | p = 0.1 | p = 0.27 | p = 0.42 | |
| +10% | ||||||||
| Inter-step interval (ms) | 535.7 (11.0) | 518.6 (13.4) | 513.4 (11.4) | 500.4 (12.4) | p = 0.19 | p = 0.31 | p < 0.05 | |
| Sync. accuracy (% of IOI) | 18.0 (2.3) | 19.1 (3.4) | 23.3 (1.6) | 21.4 (1.8) | p = 0.48 | p = 0.12 | p = 0.26 | |
| Sync. variability (% of IOI) | 2.3 (0.5) | 1.3 (0.4) | 3.5 (0.6) | 3.5 (0.6) | p = 0.18 | p < 0.05 | p < 0.01 | |