Table 2.
Participant 1 | Participant 2 | |||||||||
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Measure | Pre | Post | % Change | Follow-up | % Change | Pre | Post | % Change | Follow-up | % Change |
Peak , mL/kg/min | 23.7 | 37.6 | 58.6 | 36.7 | 54.9 | 36.1 | 35.5 | −1.66 | 35.8 | −0.83 |
O2 cost of walking, mL/kg/m | 0.46 | 0.45 | −2.17 | 0.53 | 15.2 | 0.24 | 0.14 | −41.7 | 0.15 | −37.5 |
Step width, mm | 86 | 111 | 29.1 | 106 | 23.3 | 172 | 141 | −18.0 | 126 | −26.7 |
Stride length, mm | 648 | 970 | 49.7 | 945 | 45.8 | 819 | 949 | 15.9 | 915 | 11.7 |
Walking speed,b m/s | 0.54 | 0.81 | 50.0 | 0.82 | 51.9 | 1.68 | 1.60 | −4.76 | 1.70 | 1.19 |
Walking distance, m | 224 | 281 | 25.4 | 302 | 34.8 | 555 | 567 | 2.14 | 559 | 0.66 |
Self-selected walking speed, m/s | 0.45 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0.80 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
a % Change is relative to pretraining. Pre = pretraining; Post = posttraining; = oxygen uptake.
b Walking speed was determined from the first minute of walking during the 6-Minute Walk Test.