Table 2.

Baseline comparison for the included groups of healthy older adults.

	Resistance training	Perturbation-based training	p -value
Age (y)	72.2 ± 3.56	70.8 ± 4.6	0.41
Gender	7 male; 5 female	7 male; 7 female
Body mass (kg)	73.1 ± 8.1	70.7 ± 14.0	0.60
Length (cm)	167 ± 7.3	169 ± 9.4	0.61
BMI (kg/m2)	26.2 ± 2.4	24.6 ± 3.0	0.15
Step incidence (backward)	0.79 ± 0.35	0.84 ± 0.36	0.66
Step incidence (forward)	0.87 ± 0.28	0.93 ± 0.19	0.40
MVIKT (Nm/kg)	1.85 ± 0.38	2.32 ± 0.54	0.03*
NSAE (%)	1.79 ± 0.46	1.72 ± 0.39	0.10
SOT	68.2 ± 9.63	71.4 ± 6.79	0.32
Beam walking (%)	30 ± 15	36 ± 13	0.32
Δlstep (m)early stance(backward)	0.062 ± 0.032	0.065 ± 0.017	0.70
Δlstep (m)early stance(forward)	−0.12 ± 0.040	−0.13 ± 0.049	0.77
Δlstep (m)late stance(backward)	0.078 ± 0.030	0.068 ± 0.029	0.48
Δlstep (m)late stance(forward)	−0.003 ± 0.057	−0.032 ± 0.045	0.22
KCOP	0.66 ± 0.20	0.65 ± 0.10	0.39
Khip	32.6 ± 35.5	35.2 ± 21.5	0.34
xCOMmax, non−stepping/BOS	1.13 ± 0.19	1.14 ± 0.18	0.70

^*significance at 0.05 alpha level.