Clinical utility of the 6-min walk test for patients with moderate Parkinson's disease

International Journal of Rehabilitation Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 66-70

  Kobayashi, Eiji ^a   Himuro, Nobuaki ^b   Takahashi, Mitsuhiko ^c  

^a Sapporo Yamanoue Hospital   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Japan Health Care College   (Japan)

Author keywords

6 min walk test; energy cost; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

PATIENT TREATMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TESTING;

BERG BALANCE SCALE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENTS; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DEGREE OF VARIABILITY; GENERAL HOSPITALS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARKINSON DISEASE;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

AGED; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC GAIT DISORDER; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; WALK TEST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WALK TEST;

EID: 85006269453     PISSN: 03425282     EISSN: 14735660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MRR.0000000000000205     Document Type: Article

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