Physical performance tests are useful for evaluating and monitoring the severity of locomotive syndrome

Journal of Orthopaedic Science

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 782-788

  Muramoto, Akio ^a   Imagama, Shiro ^a   Ito, Zenya ^a   Hirano, Kenichi ^a   Ishiguro, Naoki ^a   Hasegawa, Yukiharu ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

10 M GAIT TIME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL REACH; GERIATRIC LOCOMOTIVE FUNCTION SCALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; KNEE PAIN; LOCOMOTIVE SYNDROME; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM STRIDE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; ONE LEG STANDING TIME WITH EYES OPEN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; RATING SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIMED UP AND GO; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; EXERCISE TEST; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; JAPAN; LOCOMOTION; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYNDROME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTURAL BALANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SYNDROME;

EID: 84878997523     PISSN: 09492658     EISSN: 14362023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00776-012-0283-z     Document Type: Article

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