First, all rats were submitted to an adaptation period on the treadmill (Inbramed, Brazil) at a speed of 0.3 km/h during 15 minutes for three consecutive days.
The IQCODE version used in the present study was submitted to a cross-cultural adaptation process based on the model proposal of Herdman et al. [ 33].
Rabbits were submitted to a 7-day adaptation period before beginning the trial.
The PUSH tool score was submitted to a cross-cultural adaptation to the Portuguese language [ 10] and it resulted in the following sub-scores: surface area, exudate amount and type of wound tissue.
Although the Portuguese version used in this analysis was submitted to a careful cross-cultural adaptation process [ 16, 20, 21], some issues concerning the translation may have affected the response patterns and the present re-inspection of the dimensional structure as a whole.
In order to make the instrument comprehensible to the Brazilian population, it was firstly submitted to translation and cross-cultural adaptation [ 9, 10].
For this reason, the CPCHILD© instrument was submitted to translation and cross-cultural adaptation according to internationally accepted and recommended guidelines [ 16- 18], which are currently used by the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons AAOS Outcomes Committeeee (Additional file 1: Figure S1) [ 18].
The latency of saccades in pre-adaptation was submitted to a two-way ANOVA testing the "visual masking" (mask vs no-mask) and "saccade type" (reactive vs voluntary) factors.
The gain, duration, peak velocity and latency of saccades recorded in pre-adaptation were submitted to two-ways ANOVAs with the "saccade type" (reactive versus voluntary) and "visual masking" (mask versus no-mask conditions) factors.
Then for the mask condition, the mean gain change relative to pre-adaptation was submitted to a three-way ANOVA with the following factors: "block" (pre vs a25 vs b25 vs c40 vs d40 vs post), "saccade type" (reactive vs voluntary) and "target duration" (15 ms vs 50 ms vs 100 ms vs 800 ms).
