A Study on the Improvement of Walking Characteristics of the Elderly with Vibration Stimuli Applied to the Tibialis Anterior Tendon

Table 4

Mean differences between the young adults and the elderly with NS and between the elderly with NS and the elderly with all vibratory stimuli conditions of the threshold intensity (Mean ± SD).

	Young adults		Elderly with NS	With 180 Hz	With 190 Hz	With 200 Hz
Support moment
DS				0.469  ± 0.160	0.463  ± 0.158	0.474  ± 0.162
SS
Ankle power
DS						0.690  ± 0.321
SS					0.338 ± 0.115	0.338 ± 0.113
Knee power
DS
SS
Hip power
DS
SS

SD: standard deviation; NS: nonstimulated; the italic text indicates the increase in the mean; the bold text indicates the decrease in the mean; Statistical differences with the young adults . Statistical differences with the elderly with NS .