Table 2.

Gait parameters on three pavements.

Parameters	Leg	Horizontal hard pavement	Horizontal soft pavement	Sloped soft pavement
Average velocity (m/s)		0.11 ± 0.015	0.08 ± 0.022	0.06 ± 0.016
Step distance (mm)	1	33.5 ± 2.6	27.5 ± 3.1	26.0 ± 2.1
	2	31.5 ± 2.2	30.5 ± 2.1	28.0 ± 2.8
	3	37.5 ± 3.0	25.0 ± 2.6	28.0 ± 3.6
	4	29.0 ± 2.0	28.5 ± 2.4	28.5 ± 2.5
Gait cycle (s)		1.55 ± 0.28	1.64 ± 0.31	1.77 ± 0.21
Duty factor	1	0.68 ± 0.03	0.69 ± 0.07	0.65 ± 0.05
	2	0.69 ± 0.06	0.71 ± 0.02	0.64 ± 0.09
	3	0.70 ± 0.05	0.67 ± 0.10	0.61 ± 0.10
	4	0.66 ± 0.03	0.60 ± 0.08	0.62 ± 0.05

Note: the values in the table are means ± s.d..