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. 2015 Nov 23;2015:650645. doi: 10.1155/2015/650645

Table 2.

Gait variables during self-selected walking and DT conditions.

Low disability High disability Controls
SS DT ABC DT 7 DT 3 SS DT ABC DT 7 DT 3 SS DT ABC DT 7 DT 3
Stride length (cm) 135.64 ± 14.07 121.64 ± 16.66a 116.55 ± 19.09a 121.40 ± 16.55a 123.35 ± 25.96 114.87 ± 25.27a 110.77 ± 27.14a 115.91 ± 27.69ab 135.32 ± 11.89 128.79 ± 12.54 126.28 ± 14.48a 127.71 ± 10.79
Stride width (cm) 8.00 ± 4.69 7.14 ± 5.52 8.12 ± 5.55 7.61 ± 5.22 11.52 ± 2.94 10.76 ± 3.16 11.31 ± 2.93 11.60 ± 3.07 8.42 ± 3.41 9.20 ± 3.12b 10.18 ± 3.08a 9.40 ± 2.97
Double support (%) 28.61 ± 2.80∗∗ 32.78 ± 4.67a 34.71 ± 5.87a 32.19 ± 6.09 35.14 ± 9.78 38.05 ± 11.71ab 40.40 ± 12.97a 39.16 ± 11.84a 27.25 ± 2.57 29.26 ± 5.78 30.48 ± 8.84 29.86 ± 5.62
Velocity (cm/s) 118.27 ± 12.54 76.12 ± 25.24a 72.31 ± 26.28a 76.31 ± 17.08a 101.29 ± 34.28 77.66 ± 29.84a 80.36 ± 35.89a 78.16 ± 36.43a 117.37 ± 15.72 91.96 ± 23.24a 87.88 ± 27.39a 91.45 ± 27.27a
Cadence (steps/min) 104.04 ± 8.68 74.01 ± 19.63a 72.92 ± 17.96a 75.77 ± 13.35a 94.07 ± 22.94 79.03 ± 22.38a 81.07 ± 27.63a 77.03 ± 26.59a 103.48 ± 10.56 85.82 ± 20.90a 83.63 ± 22.42a 91.45 ± 20.80

Different from same condition in control group (p < 0.05); ∗∗different from same condition in high disability group (p < 0.05); adifferent from self-selected walking in the same group (p < 0.05); bdifferent from DT 7 in the same group (p < 0.05); SS: self-selected walking; DT ABC: dual-task while reciting alternate letters of alphabet; DT 7: dual-task while serially subtracting 7's from 100; DT 3: dual-task while counting, leaving out multiples and numbers including 3; DTC: dual-task cost; values are mean ± standard deviation.