Berg Balance Scale: Components Of Stepping And Sttair Management
Stepping and stairs management outcome measures:
Now I will give a brief description of outcome measures that include components of stepping and managing stairs. After that, I will talk about the specific outcome measures in the area of stepping and stair management and I will describe each one in details.
Outcome measures that include components of stepping and managing stairs:
Berg Balance Scale
The Berg Balance Scale (BBS) quantitatively assesses balance and risk of falling through direct observation of patient performance of 14 different tasks (Blum & Korner-Bitensky, 2008) . BBS tests mainly both static and dynamic standing balance (Blum & Korner-Bitensky, 2008). It has 14 items and it requires 10 to 20 minutes to accomplish it(Blum & …show more content…
It is a clinical tool that assess walking, balance, and risk of falling. It evaluates individuals gait in more challenging tasks. It is based on person environment model of mobility and disability (Shumway-Cook et al., 2013) . The item 1 of DGI tests the ability of walk under low challenge conditions (self paced, surface level, gait) the remaining 7 items examine the ability to adapt gait to task based on 4 environment dimensions: temporal (changing speed), postural transition, terrain (climbing stairs), and density (stepping over or around obstacles) (Shumway-Cook et al., 2013) . The evaluation of each item based on gait pattern, speed, and level of assistance. Total score range from 0 (poor) to 24 (best function) (Shumway-Cook et al., 2013). The scores of DGI obtained by any patient have a useful …show more content…
It represents the individual's ability to ambulate and transfer safely(Kegelmeyer et al., 2007). Patients with TMT scoring from 19 to 24 are considered to have moderate risk of falling, and those who have less than 19 are considered to have high risk of falling (Kegelmeyer et al., 2007). The step symmetry item of TMT evaluates the symmetrical of steps if they are the same, patient will get score 1. If the steps asymmetry, the patient will take score
Now I will give a brief description of outcome measures that include components of stepping and managing stairs. After that, I will talk about the specific outcome measures in the area of stepping and stair management and I will describe each one in details.
Outcome measures that include components of stepping and managing stairs:
Berg Balance Scale
The Berg Balance Scale (BBS) quantitatively assesses balance and risk of falling through direct observation of patient performance of 14 different tasks (Blum & Korner-Bitensky, 2008) . BBS tests mainly both static and dynamic standing balance (Blum & Korner-Bitensky, 2008). It has 14 items and it requires 10 to 20 minutes to accomplish it(Blum & …show more content…
It is a clinical tool that assess walking, balance, and risk of falling. It evaluates individuals gait in more challenging tasks. It is based on person environment model of mobility and disability (Shumway-Cook et al., 2013) . The item 1 of DGI tests the ability of walk under low challenge conditions (self paced, surface level, gait) the remaining 7 items examine the ability to adapt gait to task based on 4 environment dimensions: temporal (changing speed), postural transition, terrain (climbing stairs), and density (stepping over or around obstacles) (Shumway-Cook et al., 2013) . The evaluation of each item based on gait pattern, speed, and level of assistance. Total score range from 0 (poor) to 24 (best function) (Shumway-Cook et al., 2013). The scores of DGI obtained by any patient have a useful …show more content…
It represents the individual's ability to ambulate and transfer safely(Kegelmeyer et al., 2007). Patients with TMT scoring from 19 to 24 are considered to have moderate risk of falling, and those who have less than 19 are considered to have high risk of falling (Kegelmeyer et al., 2007). The step symmetry item of TMT evaluates the symmetrical of steps if they are the same, patient will get score 1. If the steps asymmetry, the patient will take score