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

Table 5

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 subthreshold intensity (Mean ± SD).

	Young adults		Elderly with NS	With 180 Hz; (Sub-thres.)	With 190 Hz; (Sub-thres.)	With 200 Hz; (Sub-thres.)
Support moment
DS				0.455 ± 0.157	0.470  ± 0.160	0.455 ± 0.157
SS
Ankle power
DS					0.669 ± 0.317	0.671 ± 0.317
SS						0.330 ± 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 .