A new simple performance test focused on agility in elderly people: The ten step test

Gerontology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 365-372

  Miyamoto, Kenzo ^a,d   Takebayashi, Hideaki ^a   Takimoto, Koji ^a   Miyamoto, Shoko ^a   Morioka, Shu ^b   Yagi, Fumio ^c  

^a Tosa Rehabilitation College   (Japan)

^b KIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d Tosa Rehabilitation College   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agility; Aging; Clinical test; Ten step test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGILITY; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISABILITY; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 55849088697     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000146787     Document Type: Article

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