Assessment Overview

Purpose: Assesses mobility, balance, walking ability, and fall risk in older adults.

Equipment: Standard height chair with armrests, 3 meter walkway marked on both ends, stopwatch

ICF Category: Activity

Assessment Psychometrics

Neuro PT EDGE highly recommends (4/4) the TUG for the acute and subacute SCI population. The TUG is also recommended (3/4) for the chronic SCI population. The TUG is reasonable to use (2/4) with AIS A/B population and highly recommended for AIS C and D individuals. Students should learn to administer this test for this population, and the TUG is also an appropriate tool to use in research. The psychometric properties for this test are reported in the list below.

• Concurrent Validity: Compared to the BBS r=0.815

• Construct Validity:

  • Excellent with the WISCI-II, r=-0.76

  • Excellent with the 10MWT, r=0.89

  • Excellent with the 6MWT, r=-0.88

• Interrater Reliability: Excellent, r=0.973

• Intrarater Reliability: Excellent, r=0.979

• Mean Data: 17 (18.7) sec, range=6.4-111.3

  • Paraplegia: 19.7 (25.9), range=6.4-111.3

  • Tetraplegia: 14.6 (8.8), range=6.5-36.7

• MDC: Smallest Real Difference=10.8 sec; 30%

• SEM: 3.9 sec

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