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

Table 3

Comparison of the variables before and after intervention for the intervention group and the control group.

	Pretraining			Posttraining
	Intervention group	Control group		Intervention group	Control group
SPPB	8.26 ± 2.91	6.28 ± 2.61	0.04	10.30 ± 2.20	7.71 ± 2.20	<0.001
BBS	48.87 ± 8.49^a	46.50 ± 7.24^a	0.770	51.51 ± 0.57^a	46.79 ± 0.74^a	<0.001
TUG (s)	14.05 ± 6.36^a	15.45 ± 7.01^a	0.540	11.79 ± 4.73^a	15.71 ± 6.76^a	<0.001
GS (m/s)	0.86 ± 0.27^a	0.78 ± 0.32^a	0.981	1.04 ± 0.30^a	0.85 ± 0.29^a	<0.001

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