Table 3.

Temporal-spatial gait parameters of the patients with trimalleolar fractures and both sides of the healthy controls

	Injured side (n = 12)	Noninjured side (n = 12)	Healthy controls (n = 24)	P1 value	P2 value	P3 value
Step length (m)	0.48 ± 0.13	0.41 ± 0.15	0.66 ± 0.06	<0.001	<0.001	0.008
Step width (m)	0.18 ± 0.04	0.18 ± 0.04	0.12 ± 0.03	<0.001	<0.001	0.434
Walking speed (m/s)	0.65 ± 0.29	0.66 ± 0.29	1.29 ± 0.13	<0.001	<0.001	0.041
Single support time (%)	16.27 ± 5.63	20.40 ± 2.71	32.27 ± 2.96	<0.001	<0.001	0.008
Symmetry index step length (%)	21.44 ± 26.34		−0.49 ± 6.02	0.014
Symmetry index step Width (%)	−0.48 ± 7.07		−4.65 ± 14.17	0.397
Symmetry index walking speed (%)	−3.74 ± 4.01		−0.35 ± 3.67	0.052
Symmetry index single support time (%)	−27.63 ± 27.35		−0.94 ± 7.23	0.028

P1 Injured side VS healthy controls, P2 Noninjured side VS healthy controls, P3 Injured side VS noninjured side