The Figure-of-Eight Walk test: reliability and associations with stroke-specific impairments.

Conclusions: The F8W test time is a reliable measurement tool, which is able to differentiate the patients with stroke and healthy elderly subjects and correlated well with stroke-specific impairments and walking tests. The F8W is a reliable measurement tool for assessing the advanced walking performance of subjects with chronic stroke. Implication for Rehabilitation The F8W test times have excellent intra-rater, inter-rater and test-retest reliabilities in patients with chronic stroke. The F8W test times were also found to be significantly associated with FMA-LE, BBS, FTSTST, TUG scores and 10MWT. A F8W test time of 8.2 s was found to be the most representative for discriminating between healthy elderly and stroke subjects, with a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 89.7%. The F8W test time is a reliable and valid measure in assessing the advanced walking skill in patients with stroke. PMID: 23600714 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research