The Therapeutic Effect of Nordic Walking on Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Study

Table 1

Baseline patients’ characteristics.

	All patients	NW group	Control	(in tests for differences between 2 groups)
Number of patients	40	20 (8 males)	20 (9 males)	0.53 (Fisher’s exact test)
Age (years), mean ± SD (range)	69.8 ± 7.3 (58–84)	72.1 ± 7.5 (58–84)	67.6 ± 6.6 (58–82)	0.051 (t-test for independent groups)
Duration of disease (years), mean ± SD (range)	5.6 ± 1.2 (4–8)	5.2 ± 1.1 (4–7)	6.0 ± 1.2 (4–8)	0.04 (Mann–Whitney test)
H-Y	II in 20 patients; III in 20 patients	II in 9 patients,; III in 11 patients	II in 11 patients; III in 9 patients	0.75 (Mood’s median test)
UPDRS III (range)	32.3 ± 7.3 (17–47)	32.7 ± 6.9 (21–46)	32.0 ± 7.7 (17–47)	0.76 (t-test for independent groups)