Spatiotemporal, kinematic and kinetic assessment of the effects of a foot drop stimulator for home-based rehabilitation of patients with chronic stroke: a randomized clinical trial

Table 6 Ankle moment peak at stance phase and swing phase and power peak at stance phase

Kinetic parameters(N·m/kg, W/kg))	Normal	tPNS		P	CT		P
	X (SD)	X (SD)			X (SD)
	X (SD)	Pre-training	Post-training		Pre-training	Post-training
Ankle StP_max
Sagittal	1.20 (0.28)	0.73 (0.27)	0.80 (0.36)*	0.460	0.97 (0.57)	1.01 (0.32)	0.783
Frontal	0.10 (0.10)	0.51 (0.38)	0.55 (0.40)	0.653	0.44 (0.45)	0.42 (0.42)	0.512
Transverse	0.09 (0.05)	0.11 (0.05)	0.13 (0.08)	0.372	0.13 (0.08)	0.11 (0.09)	0.250
Ankle SwP_min
Sagittal	− 0.15 (0.09)	− 0.54 (0.46)	− 0.45 (0.32)	0.478	− 0.56 (0.50)	− 0.43 (0.53)	0.165
Frontal	− 0.18 (0.12)	− 0.08 (0.09)	− 0.05 (0.06)	0.257	− 0.10 (0.13)	− 0.16 (0.210	0.323
Transverse	− 0.06 (0.05)	− 0.08 (0.05)	− 0.08 (0.06)	0.844	0.06 (0.05)	− 0.08 (0.11)	0.394
Ankle power
StP_max	2.76 (0.94)	0.61 (0.46)	0.74 (0.55)	0.335	0.97 (0.78)	0.92 (0.61)	0.722
StP_min	− 0.70 (0.28)	− 0.78 (0.52)	− 0.85 (0.66)	0.699	− 0.61 (0.57)	− 0.68 (0.34)	0.233

StP_max: maximum value in the stance phase; SwP_min: minimum value in the swing phase; StP_min: minimum value in the stance phase
The data with bold: not normally distributed with Mann–Whitney U test
P value for within group comparison; *significant difference between two groups comparison at post-training (P < 0.05)

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