Table 2.

Verbal cognitive tasks given while patients were walking with dual-task training

Repeating numbers and letters	Give the patient a certain quantity of numbers and letters depending on the illness and let him/her repeat them from memory
Word spelling	Give the patient a word and let him/her spell the word given
Stroop test	Ask the patient to read color words printed in different colors, e.g. to read the word “yellow” in blue writing
Image description	Show the patient a picture and ask him/her to describe the picture in detail
Verbal communication	Give a letter of the alphabet to the patient and let him/her say words of a certain category, such as plant, animal, country, starting with that letter
Count the number	Ask the patient to count to 3 or from 3 backwards or forwards
Describing daily life activities	Ask the patient to describe something he/she has done on weekdays or on weekends and let him/her explain how to do it