Effects of Long-Term Use of Insoles with a Toe-Grip Bar on the Balance, Walking, and Running of Preschool Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 1

Characteristics of the intervention and control groups.

Parameters	Intervention group		Control group		value
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age (months)	67.63	4.00	67.35	3.72	0.82
Height (cm)	110.95	5.16	110.94	4.38	1.00
Body weight (kg)	18.92	2.00	18.65	1.93	0.66
Total trajectory length (cm)	19.36	6.71	21.06	5.52	0.37
Envelope area (cm^2)	1.08	0.42	1.36	0.83	0.17
Walking speed (cm/s)	111.70	26.72	114.26	12.04	0.68
Cadence (steps/min)	145.40	23.28	145.25	12.60	0.98
Stride length (cm)	91.69	11.59	95.08	8.47	0.28
Stance time (s)	0.48	0.09	0.48	0.04	0.72
Swing time (s)	0.36	0.04	0.36	0.03	0.94
25 m running time (s)	6.72	0.53	6.49	0.67	0.20

SD: standard deviation.