Table 2.

Spatio-temporal gait parameters for adolescents and adults under the two walking conditions—walking barefoot (WB) and walking with shoes and FOs insoles (WSI).

Parameters	Adolescents (N = 12)			Adults (N = 17)
	WB	WSI	p-Value	WB	WSI	p-Value
Right gait cycle (s)	1.14 ± 0.16	1.17 ± 0.11	0.295	1.26 ± 0.16	1.27 ± 0.14	0.743
Left gait cycle (s)	1.14 ± 0.15	1.16 ± 0.1	0.442	1.26 ± 0.15	1.28 ± 0.15	0.783
Right % stance (as a % of the gait cycle)	62.95 ± 4.12	64.41 ± 3.45	0.372	62.27 ± 3.62	63.54 ± 2.83	0.148
Left % stance (as a % of the gait cycle)	63.20 ± 4.69	63.34 ± 2.97	0.735	62.44 ± 1.79	64.02 ± 2.91	0.068
Right % double support (as a % of the gait cycle)	12.83 ± 3.59	13.74 ± 3.39	0.644	12.50 ± 2.54	14.07 ± 2.50	0.085
Left % double support (as a % of the gait cycle)	13.00 ± 4.61	13.87 ± 2.95	0.518	12.56 ± 2.38	13.9 ± 2.60	0.179
Mean velocity (m/s)	0.75 ± 0.22	0.83 ± 0.15	0.265	0.73 ± 0.20	0.79 ± 0.22	0.436
Right stride length (m)	0.85 ± 0.18	0.97 ± 0.14	0.060	0.89 ± 0.18	0.99 ± 0.22	0.202
Left stride length (m)	0.84 ± 0.18	0.95 ± 0.16	0.116	0.88 ± 0.18	0.98 ± 0.21	0.129
Right step length (m)	0.42 ± 0.09	0.48 ± 0.08	0.123	0.44 ± 0.10	0.49 ± 0.10	0.185
Left step length (m)	0.42 ± 0.10	0.49 ± 0.08	0.069	0.44 ± 0.08	0.49 ± 0.11	0.196
Step width (m)	0.15 ± 0.06	0.14 ± 0.06	0.711	0.15 ± 0.04	0.15 ± 0.06	0.850

Abbreviations: WB, Walking Barefoot; WSI, Walking with Shoes and FOs Insoles. Note: In bold are the significant p-values. Data are reported as mean ± SD.