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Table 1 Gait variables during different walking trajectories

From: The generation of centripetal force when walking in a circle: insight from the distribution of ground reaction forces recorded by plantar insoles

Gait variables

Walking trajectories

ANOVA

  
 

LIN

CCW

CW

F

df

P

 

Post-hoc

Speed (m/s)

1.59

1.35

1.33

14.9

2,76

<0.001

<0.005

LIN vs CCW

SE

0.06

0.05

0.05

   

<0.005

LIN vs CW

       

0.96

CCW vs CW

Cadence (steps/min)

127.1

114.6

114.5

8.2

2,76

<0.005

<0.005

LIN vs CCW

SE

3.2

2.4

2.1

   

<0.005

LIN vs CW

       

0.99

CCW vs CW

 

Feet

ANOVA

  
 

LIN foot

Foot-In

Foot-Out

F

df

P

 

Post-hoc

Stance duration (% GC)

62.8

62.6

61.1

6.5

2, 147

<0.005

0.97

LIN vs Foot-In

SE

0.6

0.4

0.5

   

<0.005

LIN foot vs Foot-Out

       

<0.05

Foot-IN vs Foot-Out

  1. SE (standard error), GC (gait cycle), CCW (counterclockwise), CW (clockwise), LIN foot (average of left and right foot during linear trajectory), Foot-In/Out (foot inside/outside the trajectory).