borderline significancep =0.058
After excluding non-exercise adherent patients (per-protocol analysis) from the walking football group, balance improved significantly after 8 weeks and 16 weeks of intervention in the non-dominant leg (median, IQR: 8.1, 3.3-21.3 vs 17.8, 6.6-38.7 vs 19.2, 7.3-33.5, p =0.023) and dominant leg, although with borderline significance (median, IQR: 6.9, 3.2-21.8 vs 16.2, 10.4-33.0 vs 20.1, 10.3-27.0, p =0.058).