Document Type

Report

Publication Date

11-2007

DOI

10.2522/ptj.20060344

Publication Title

Physical Therapy

Volume

87

Issue

11

Pages

1468-1477

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.

Comments

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Original Publication Citation

Walker, M. L., Austin, A. G., Banke, G. M., Foxx, S. R., Gaetano, L., Gardner, L. A., . . . Penn, L. (2007). Reference group data for the functional gait assessment. Physical Therapy, 87(11), 1468-1477. doi:10.2522/ptj.20060344

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