Extended Timed Up & Go test: Is walking forward and returning back to the chair equivalent gait?
| Autor: | Slavka Viteckova, Patrik Kutilek, Radim Krupicka, Evžen Růžička, Vaclav Cejka, Petr Dusek, Zoltan Szabo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Computer science 0206 medical engineering Biomedical Engineering Biophysics STRIDE Double support phase Walking 02 engineering and technology 03 medical and health sciences Spatio-Temporal Analysis 0302 clinical medicine Physical medicine and rehabilitation medicine Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Aged Rehabilitation Significant difference Healthy subjects Parkinson Disease Middle Aged Gait cycle 020601 biomedical engineering Gait Test (assessment) Case-Control Studies Gait analysis Female Gait Analysis 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Biomechanics. 89:110-114 |
| ISSN: | 0021-9290 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.04.001 |
| Popis: | The Timed Up & Go test (TUG) is functional test and is a part of routine clinical examinations. The instrumented Timed Up & Go test enables its segmentation to sub-tasks: sit-to-stand, walking forward, turning, walking back, stand-to-sit, and consequently the computation of task-specific parameters and sub-tasks separately. However, there are no data on whether walking forward parameters differ from the walking back parameters. This study tested the differences between walking forward and walking back in the TUG extended to 10 m for 17 spatio-temporal gait parameters. All parameters were obtained from a GAITRite® pressure sensitive walkway (CIR Systems, Inc.). The differences were assessed for healthy controls and Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. None of investigated parameters exhibited a difference between both gait subtasks for healthy subjects group. Five parameters of interest, namely velocity, step length, stride length, stride velocity, and the proportion of the double support phase with respect to gait cycle duration, showed a statistically significant difference between gait for walking forward and walking back in PD patients. Therefore, we recommend a separate assessment for walking forward and walking back rather than averaging both gaits together. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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