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Table 2 Spontaneous sway measures (RMS, MV, CF) with group effects, and interactions between groups and visual conditions / sway directions

		Healthy control subjects	Patients pre-intervention	Patients post-intervention	F-value	p-value
RMS (cm)		0.46 ± 0.18	0.56 ± 0.27	0.53 ± 0.27	10.926	< 0.0001
visual condition	eyes open eyes closed	0.45 ± 0.18 0.56 ± 0.19	0.49 ± 0.23 0.63 ± 0.30	0.48 ± 0.22 0.59 ± 0.31	5.06	0.007
sway direction	anterior-posterior medio-lateral	0.52 ± 0.16 0.35 ± 0.17	0.67 ± 0.28 0.41 ± 0.19	0.67 ± 0.25 0.35 ± 0.18	4.06	0.018
MV (cm/s)		0.35 ± 0.14	0.69 ± 0.57	0.69 ± 0.56	7.80	0.0005
visual condition	eyes open eyes closed	0.32 ± 0.13 0.39 ± 0.14	0.45 ± 0.31 0.92 ± 0.84	0.50 ± 0.35 0.88 ± 0.81	8.00	0.0004
sway direction	anterior-posterior medio-lateral	0.41 ± 0.13 0.27 ± 0.12	0.82 ± 0.78 0.51 ± 0.44	0.84 ± 0.73 0.49 ± 0.44		n.s.
CF (Hz)		0.37 ± 0.11	0.46 ± 0.18	0.46 ± 0.21		n.s.

RMS root means square, MV mean velocity, CF center frequency, n.s not significant
F- and p-values refer to the comparison between the three groups and subordinated, to the post-hoc analysis of the interaction with visual condition and sway direction, respectively

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