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. 2022 Sep 28;10:e14054. doi: 10.7717/peerj.14054

Table 2. Effects of time on gait parameters in the TKA and THA group.

TKA (n = 24) THA (n = 24)
Baseline –2 months 2 months –15 months Baseline –2 months 2 months –15 months
Gait parameters Baseline (intercept) Mean difference (95% CI) P value P corr Mean difference (95% CI) P value P corr Baseline (intercept) Mean difference (95% CI) P value P corr Mean difference (95% CI) P value P corr
Gait speed (m/s) 0.99 −0.04 (−0.10, 0.03) 0.272 0.569 0.22 (0.15, 0.29) <0.001 <0.001 0.96 0.04 (−0.02, 0.10) 0.245 0.514 0.14 (0.06, 0.20) <0.001 0.003
Stride Length (m) 1.16 −0.002 (−0.05, 0.05) 0.924 0.924 0.14 (0.09, 0.19) <0.001 <0.001 1.11 0.05 (0.002, 0.10) 0.049 0.306 0.07 (0.02, 0.13) 0.013 0.076
Cadence (steps/min) 102.8 −3.8 (−6.8, −0.8) 0.016 0.081 10.1 (7.0, 13.2) <0.001 <0.001 103.0 −1.1 (−3.9, 1.7) 0.453 0.514 6.9 (3.8, 10.1) <0.001 <0.001
Peak turning velocity (deg/s) 164.0 8.5 (−6.5, 23.7) 0.275 0.759 17.4 (1.7, 33.0) 0.035 0.105 171.2 19.1 (6.9, 31.5) 0.004 0.033 11.1 (−2.5, 24.9) 0.121 0.484
Step time asymmetry (%) 4.3 −0.7 (−2.0, 0.6) 0.292 0.514 −1.0 (−2.4, 0.3) 0.155 0.553
Stride time variability (%) 2.3 0.2 (−0.2, 0.6) 0.380 0.569 −0.3 (−0.8, 0.1) 0.117 0.234 2.5 −0.1 (−0.5, 0.3) 0.514 0.514 −0.2 (−0.7, 0.2) 0.277 0.831
Lumbar sagittal RoM (deg) 8.1 −1.9 (−3.0, −0.8) 0.001 0.013 0.1 (−1.1, 1.3) 0.870 0.870
Lumbar coronal RoM (deg) 5.2 0.4 (−0.3, 1.3) 0.255 0.514 1.4 (0.6, 2.1) 0.001 0.010
Trunk coronal RoM (deg) 7.8 −1.0 (−1.6, −0.3) 0.009 0.049 0.1 (−0.6, 0.9) 0.710 0.710 8.1 −0.6 (−1.3, 0.1) 0.087 0.439 0.1 (−0.6, 0.8) 0.797 0.870

Notes.

TKA
total knee arthroplasty
THA
total hip arthroplasty
RoM
range of motion
P corr
Hommel adjusted p-value

Data are presented as mean (95% CI).