Age- and gender-related test performance in community-dwelling elderly people: Six-Minute Walk Test, Berg Balance Scale, Timed Up & Go Test, and gait speeds

Physical Therapy

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 128-137

  Steffen, Teresa M ^a   Hacker, Timothy A ^a   Mollinger, Louise ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Berg Balance Scale; Elderly; Gait speed; Six Minute Walk Test; Timed Up Go Test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BERG BALANCE SCALE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; GAIT; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOBILIZATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RELIABILITY; SIX MINUTE WALK TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIMED UP AND GO TEST; VALIDATION PROCESS; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 0036154162     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/82.2.128     Document Type: Article

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