Gait Abnormality Rating Scale

Gait Abnormality Rating Scale (GARS)[1] is a videotape-based analysis of 16 facets of human gait. It has been evaluated as a screening tool to identify patients at risk for injury from falls.[2] and has been used in remote gait evaluation.[3] A modified version was published in 1996.[4]

Gait Abnormality Rating Scale
Purposeevaluate individuals who are a risk to fall

Scoring and assessment

The scale comprises three categories:[5]

Each item has a score range from 0 (good function) to 3 (poor function).[6]

The total GARS score is the sum of the 16 individual facets, and the total score represents a rank ordering of risk for falling, based on the number of gait abnormalities recognized and the severity of any gait abnormality identified.

References
  1. Wolfson L, Whipple R, Amerman P, Tobin JN (January 1990). "Gait assessment in the elderly: a gait abnormality rating scale and its relation to falls". J Gerontol. 45 (1): M12–9. doi:10.1093/geronj/45.1.m12. PMID 2295773.
  2. VanSwearingen JM, Paschal KA, Bonino P, Chen TW (November 1998). "Assessing recurrent fall risk of community-dwelling, frail older veterans using specific tests of mobility and the physical performance test of function". J. Gerontol. A Biol. Sci. Med. Sci. 53 (6): M457–64. doi:10.1093/gerona/53a.6.m457. PMID 9823750.
  3. Russell TG, Jull GA, Wootton R (2003). "The diagnostic reliability of Internet-based observational kinematic gait analysis". J Telemed Telecare. 9. Suppl 2 (Supplement 2): S48–51. doi:10.1258/135763303322596255. PMID 14728760.
  4. VanSwearingen JM, Paschal KA, Bonino P, Yang JF (September 1996). "The modified Gait Abnormality Rating Scale for recognizing the risk of recurrent falls in community-dwelling elderly adults". Phys Ther. 76 (9): 994–1002. doi:10.1093/ptj/76.9.994. PMID 8790277.
  5. "GAIT ASSESSMENT RATING SCALE". Archived from the original on 13 February 2012.
  6. "Abnormal Gait".
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