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Table 5 Wrist accelerometry and step counts at admission and discharge from inpatient rehabilitation

From: Physical activity outside of structured therapy during inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation

 

Admission

Discharge

Z value

p

effect size

Particiapants with paraplegia

 Wrist Accelerometry: Total Day

194, 135–258

227, 165–305

~

~

~

 Wrist Accelerometry: Outside PT/OT only

151, 112–229

209, 138–273

−2.29

0.022

−0.22

Participants with tetraplegia

 Wrist Accelerometry: Total Day

75, 29–141

112, 35–183

~

~

~

 Wrist Accelerometry: Outside PT/OT only

62, 20–113

99, 29–148

−4.02

<0.0001*

−0.44

Ambulatory Participants

 Hip Accelerometry: Total Day

63, 0–726

1488, 236–3593

~

~

~

 Hip Accelerometry: Outside PT/OT only

0, 0–662

1097, 176–3130

−3.98

<0.0001*

−0.49

  1. Wrist accelerometry values reported in kilocounts; Hip accelerometry values reported as steps; All values are median, Q1–Q3; *p ≤ 0.012 (Benjamini-Hochberg corrected significance level), PT physical therapy; OT occupational therapy