Is There Any Relationship between Upper and Lower Limb Impairments in People with Multiple Sclerosis? A Kinematic Quantitative Analysis

Table 3

Spearman’s rho coefficients of correlation between upper and lower limb kinematic parameters in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and healthy controls (HC).

Lower limb (gait)
		Gait speed		Stride length		Cadence		Step width
		MS	HC	MS	HC	MS	HC	MS	HC
Upper limb (hand-to-mouth)	Movement velocity	0.433^**	0.337^*	0.127	0.081	0.452^**	0.071	0.075	−0.105
	Going phase	−0.069	−0.171	−0.317^*	−0.191	−0.253	−0.146	0.374^**	−0.042
	Adjusting phase	−0.274^*	−0.363^*	−0.122	−0.115	−0.108	−0.442^**	−0.215	0.127
	Return phase	−0.370^**	0.246	0.353^**	0.072	0.315^*	0.006	−0.079	−0.110
	Adjusting sway	−0.510^**	−0.496^*	−0.326^*	−0.347^*	−0.407^**	−0.297	−0.115	−0.196

^*; ^**; MS: multiple sclerosis; HC: healthy controls.