Imagined Timed Up & Go test: A new tool to assess higher-level gait and balance disorders in older adults?

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 294, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 102-106

  Beauchet, Olivier ^a   Annweiler, Cédric ^a   Assal, Frédéric ^b   Bridenbaugh, Stephanie ^c   Herrmann, François R ^b   Kressig, Reto W ^c   Allali, Gilles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assessment; Mobility; Motor imagery; Older adult; Timed Up Go test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOTOR CONTROL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TIMED UP AND GO TEST; WALKING AID; AGE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; PROCEDURES; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VERY ELDERLY; VESTIBULAR DISEASES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; POSTURAL BALANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VESTIBULAR DISEASES;

EID: 77953479778     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2010.03.021     Document Type: Article

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