Table 3 Stride time (seconds) during walking with the soft exosuit powered at min 0–2 (early_pow), min 9–11 (mid_pow), at min 18–20 (late_pow) and unpowered (unpow) across the five testing sessions.

From: Metabolic cost adaptations during training with a soft exosuit assisting the hip joint

 

early_pow

mid_pow

late_pow

unpow

p-value

Session 1

0.98 ± 0.04

1.00 ± 0.05

1.00 ± 0.05

1.01 ± 0.05^

0.0017

Session 2

0.98 ± 0.04

1.00 ± 0.05

1.01 ± 0.06*

1.02 ± 0.04*

<0.001

Session 3

0.99 ± 0.05

1.01 ± 0.05

1.01 ± 0.05

1.02 ± 0.04*

0.026

Session 4

0.98 ± 0.04

1.01 ± 0.04*

1.01 ± 0.04*

1.01 ± 0.04*

0.002

Session 5

0.99 ± 0.04

1.01 ± 0.04*

1.01 ± 0.05*

1.01 ± 0.04*

0.008

  1. *Represents statistically significant within session differences with early_pow (p < 0.05). Data are means ± standard deviation.
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