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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Spine J. 2017 Sep 28;18(1):15–21. doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2017.08.262

Table 3.

Objective functional outcomes

Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) (n=13) Self Paced Walk Test (SPWT) (n=28)
Total Balance Gait Speed Chair Stand Total Score Time when symptoms appear (minutes) Completed time (minutes) Complete distance (meters) Speed (kilometer/hour)
Pre-surgery 3.55±0.69 2.64±0.92 1.18±0.87 7.36±1.91 2.24±2.70 11.24±10.82 643.10±736.82 2.77±1.13
Post-surgery 4.00±0.00 3.46±0.93 2.27±1.42 9.73±2.10 11.82±11.68 21.86±10.84 1370.29±831.30 3.47±0.99
p-value 0.05 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Values are mean ± standard deviation unless otherwise indicated.