Table 4.
Analysis of gait parameters during voluntary locomotion after lesion (week 4).
| Parameter | 4 weeks |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sham |
CST |
iDC |
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| 25-percentile | Median | 75-percentile | 25-percentile | Median | 75-percentile | 25-percentile | Median | 75-percentile | |
| Stand Front (s) | 0,17 | 0,22 | 0,25 | 0,19 | 0,20 | 0,22 | 0,18 | 0,20 | 0,24 |
| Stand Hind (s) | 0,17 | 0,21 | 0,24 | 0,17 | 0,19 | 0,22 | 0,17 | 0,20 | 0,22 |
| Stride length Front (cm) | 14,39 | 14,65 | 15,12 | 14,51 | 14,90 | 15,20 | 14,15 | 14,83 | 15,41 |
| Stride length Hind (cm) | 13,89 | 14,50 | 15,25 | 14,19 | 14,97 | 15,17 | 14,22 | 14,89 | 15,33 |
| Swing Front (s) | 0,13 | 0,15 | 0,16 | 0,15 | 0,15 | 0,15 | 0,13 | 0,15 | 0,16 |
| Swing Hind (s) | 0,13 | 0,15 | 0,16 | 0,14 | 0,15 | 0,16 | 0,13 | 0,14 | 0,16 |
| Swing speed Front (cm/s) | 90,94 | 113,00 | 119,20 | 101,20 | 116,20 | 121,50 | 94,04 | 117,80 | 122,00 |
| Swing speed Hind (cm/s) | 87,86 | 102,90 | 115,20 | 89,73 | 93,00 | 103,90 | 87,33 | 103,10 | 112,90 |
| Step cycle mean (s) | 0,30 | 0,36 | 0,40 | 0,33 | 0,35 | 0,37 | 0,31 | 0,34 | 0,40 |
| Print position left (cm) | 0,31 | 0,70 | 0,97 | 0,18 | 0,49 | 0,53 | −0,39 | 0,31 | 0,86 |
| Print position right (cm) | −0,17 | 0,65 | 0,78 | 0,07 | 0,31 | 0,60 | −0,19 | 0,48 | 1,30 |
| Base of support front (cm) | 1,52 | 1,66 | 1,84 | 1,65 | 1,74 | 1,91 | 1,60 | 1,72 | 1,89 |
| Base of support hind (cm) | 1,86 | 2,18 | 2,47 | 1,69 | 1,87 | 2,38 | 1,53 | 1,69 | 1,96 |
| Regularity index (%) | 97,50 | 100,00 | 100,00 | 97,41 | 99,07 | 100,00 | 97,78 | 99,07 | 100,00 |
Stand or Stance phase: duration of contact of a paw with the glass plate; Stride Length: distance between successive placements of the same paw; Swing: duration of no contact of a paw with the glass plate; Swing Speed: speed of the paw during Swing; Step Cycle: time between two consecutive initial contacts of the same paw; Print Positions: distance between the position of the hind paw and the position of the previously placed front paw on the same side of the body (ipsilateral) and in the same Step Cycle; Base of Support (BOS): average width between either the front paws or the hind paws; Regularity Index: number of normal step sequence patterns relative to the total number of paw placements. Two-factorial nonparametric analysis of the data did not reveal a significant difference in any of the parameters between sham, dCST and iDC group. Data are provided as median and interquartile range. Table 1 provides the adjusted p values for the 7-week period.