Effectiveness of a Treadmill Training Programme in Improving the Postural Balance on Institutionalized Older Adults

Table 2

Results of the short physical performance battery, Berg balance scale, timed up and go, and gait speed test obtained for the intervention group^a.

	Intervention group
	Pretraining	Posttraining	1 month of follow-up
SPPB	8.26 ± 2.91	10.3 ± 2.20	10.43 ± 2.17
BBS	48.87 ± 8.49	52.13 ± 5.28	51.91 ± 5.58
TUG	14.04 ± 6.36	11.36 ± 4.73	11.65 ± 5.09
GS	0.86 ± 0.27	1.07 ± 0.30	1.03 ± 0.29

SPPB: short physical performance battery; BBS: Berg balance scale; TUG: timed up and go; GS: gait speed; compared with pretraining;^aone-way repeated measures ANCOVA adjusted for age and baseline values as covariates.