Clinical Study
A Manipulation of Visual Feedback during Gait Training in Parkinson's Disease
Table 2
Mean (6 standard deviation) of outcome measures from pre-, post-, and retention test.
| | Measure | Test | PD control | PD treadmill group | PD overground group | ANOVA Pre-, Post-, and Retention |
| | Step length (cm) | Pretest | 57.7 (12.3) | 63.9 (10.6) | 57.6 (62.3) | | | Posttest | 59.3 (12.7) | 69.4 (9.9)** | 62.3 (8.3)** | | Retention test | 58.8 (14.0) | 69.9 (12.4)** | 64.2 (10.3)** |
| | Velocity (cm/sec) | Pretest | 109.0 (27.7) | 119.2 (15.6) | 108.5 (23.8) | | | Posttest | 109.6 (27.1) | 128.3 (16.5) | 112.2 (18.1) | | Retention test | 104.3 (32.8) | 129.1 (18.0) | 118.9 (19.0) |
| | TUG time (seconds) | Pretest | 9.0 (3.0) | 7.7 (2.0) | 9.9 (4.2) | | | Posttest | 9.1 (3.3) | 6.3 (2.0) | 8.4 (3.7) | | Retention test | 9.1 (3.7) | 6.5 (2.5) | 10.2 (5.8) |
| | UPDRS score | Pretest | 24.6 (9.7) | 23.6 (10.5) | 22.1 (8.0) | NS | | Posttest | 26.7 (8.8) | 23.0 (8.0) | 25.5 (7.0) | | Retention test | 26.8 (8.8) | 22.6 (8.0) | 27.8 (9.1) |
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NS: denotes a nonsignificant interaction.
**: denotes significantly different from pretest ().
3 patients removed from the current analysis.
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