The Effect of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy on Ground Reaction Forces during Straight Walking in Stroke Survivors

Table 2

GRFs of the paretic and nonparetic side.

GRFs	Stroke survivors with DPN ()		Stroke survivors without DPN ()		Healthy controls ()		value	Post hoc ( value)
	Median	Range	Median	Range	Median	Range		SDPN versus S	SDPN versus HC	S versus HC
Anterior-posterior forces (paretic) (N/kg)	−0.0002	−0.01–0.01	0.0008	−0.01–0.02	−0.0006	−0.02–0.02	0.937	—	—	—
Anterior-posterior forces (nonparetic) (N/kg)	−0.0009	−0.01–0.01	0.0008	−0.01–0.02	−0.0008	−0.02–0.02	0.890	—	—	—
Medial-lateral forces (paretic) (N/kg)	−0.001	0.00-0.00	−0.0014	0.00-0.00	−0.0024	0.00-0.00	0.001	0.050	0.001	0.001
Medial-lateral forces (nonparetic) (N/kg)	−0.009	0.00-0.00	−0.0003	0.00-0.00	0.02	−0.04–0.11	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001
Vertical forces (paretic) (N/kg)	0.09	0.00–0.11	0.12	0.00–0.13	0.13	0.00–0.15	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001
Vertical forces (nonparetic) (N/kg)	0.12	0.02–0.13	0.12	0.00–0.13	0.13	0.01–0.15	0.001	0.545	0.001	0.001

DPN: diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
GRFs: ground reaction forces.
SDPN: stroke survivors with DPN.
S: stroke survivors without DPN.
HC: healthy controls.
Significant.