Reference Group Data for the Functional Gait Assessment

Overview

Journal Phys Ther

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Rehabilitation Medicine

Date 2007 Sep 6

PMID 17785375

Citations 35

Authors

Martha L Walker

Alvis G Austin

Gina M Banke

Suzanne R Foxx

Lynn Gaetano

Laurie A Gardner

Jill McElhiney

Kisiah Morris

Liz Penn

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Abstract

Background And Purpose: The Functional Gait Assessment (FGA) is a clinical tool for evaluating performance in walking. The purpose of this study was to determine age-referenced norms for performance on the FGA in community-living older adults.

Subjects: Subjects were 200 adults, ages 40 to 89 years, living independently.

Methods: Each subject completed the FGA one time and was scored simultaneously by 2 testers.

Results: The intraclass correlation coefficient for interrater reliability was .93. Mean scores for the FGA ranged from 29/30 for adults in their 40s to 21/30 for adults in their 80s.

Discussion And Conclusion: Patient performance on the FGA can be compared with age-referenced norms for expected performance. Further research is needed to determine the FGA's usefulness in tracking clinical changes or predicting falls. The FGA is a reliable test for people without disease, and it is able to detect decreases in gait performance among typical older adults.

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