Table 1.
Characteristics of participants for baseline comparisons.
| Characteristics | Robot- assisted |
PT-assisted | p |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (y) | 11.3 ± 3.8 | 10.5 ± 2.6 | 0.57 |
| Gender (M/F) | 6/5 | 8/4 | |
| Race (white/other) | |||
| African American | 1 | 4 | |
| Asian | 1 | 0 | |
| Hispanic | 4 | 3 | |
| White | 5 | 5 | |
| Extremity distribution | |||
| Diplegia | 4 | 4 | |
| Quadriplegia | 6 | 8 | |
| Triplegia | 1 | 0 | |
| GMFCS | |||
| I | 1 | 2 | |
| II | 6 | 3 | |
| III | 3 | 5 | |
| IV | 1 | 2 | |
| Assistive Device | |||
| RW/RRW | 4 | 7 | |
| None | 7 | 5 | |
| Ankle braces | |||
| None | 1 | 0 | |
| BAFO/SMO | 9/1 | 12/0 | |
| GMFM | |||
| Total score | 62.4 ± 6.7 | 61.0 ± 10.4 | 0.46 |
| Dimension D | 25.7 ± 9.2 | 21.9 ± 11.2 | 0.38 |
| Dimension E | 35.3 ± 19.4 | 28.4 ± 21.4 | 0.43 |
| Self-selected gait speed (m/s) | 0.70 ± 0.20 | 0.69 ± 0.29 | 0.40 |
| Fast walking gait speed (m/s) | 1.13 ± 0.33 | 1.06 ± 0.52 | 0.66 |
| 6-minute walking distance (m) | 314.0 ± 73.7 | 341.7 ± 212.9 | 0.69 |
| MAS | 0.62 ± 0.46 | 0.62 ± 0.39 | 0.95 |
Abbreviations: PT, physical therapist; GMFCS, Gross Motor Function Classification System; GMFM, Gross Motor Function Measure; RW, rolling walker, RRW, reverse rolling walker; BAFO, Bilateral Ankle Foot Orthosis; SMO, Supra-Malleolar Orthosis; MAS, Modified Ashworth Scale.