Postural Stability in Parkinson’s Disease Patients Is Improved after Stochastic Resonance Therapy

Table 2

Effect of whole body vibration after treatment (between-group comparison).

	Mean	Difference	p value	95% CI
Posturography sham [mm]	263.86 64.26		0.14	−47.33, 95.93
Posturography experimental	293.86 144.50
TUG sham [sec.]	10.46 7.73		0.18	−5.38, 1.07
TUG experimental	8.31 3.65
Tinetti sum score sham	21.92 7.61		0.97	−0.49, 5.70
Tinetti sum score experimental	24.24 3.30
8MW sham [sec.]	6.53 3.03		0.43	−1.92, 0.83
8MW experimental	6.11 1.86
UPDRS sum score sham	21.44 10.79		0.38	−9.03, 3.54
UPDRS sum score experimental	18.86 12.53
UPDRS speech and facial sham	2.36 1.38		0.60	−0.91, 0.53
UPDRS speech and facial experimental	2.17 1.25
UPDRS tremor sham	1.24 1.78		0.71	−1.03; 1.49
UPDRS tremor experimental	1.55 2.69
UPDRS bradykinesia sham	11.32 5.78		0.33	−5.09; 1.76
UPDRS bradykinesia experimental	9.65 6.65
UPDRS rigor sham	2.04 2.52		0.86	−1.37; 1,60
UPDRS rigor experimental	2.17 2.92
UPDRS pull-test sham	1.48 1.15		0.19	−0.93; 0.19
UPDRS pull-test experimental	1.10 0.93

Values are indicated as mean SD. CI, confidence interval; “difference” indicates sham-experimental in absolute values; negative prefix indicates clinically worse; positive prefix indicates clinically improved.