Performance Based Outcome Measures

Question 1

Timed Up and Go (TUG)

Answer 1

Assesses mobility, balance, walking ability, and fall risk in older adults.

Population:
- geriatric
- vestibular
- SCI
- TBI
- parkinson’s, alzheimer’s, dementia
- osteoarthritis

ICF category:
- activity
- participation

Question 2

10 Meter Walk Test (10MWT)

Answer 2

Assesses walking speed in m/s over a short duration. Gait, mobility, vestibular, walking speed.

Population
- TBI/SCI
- neuromuscular conditions
- joint pain/fx
- MS
- geriatric
- non-specific

ICF category:
- activity

Question 3

6 Minute Walk Test (6MWT)

Answer 3

Assesses distance walked over 6 min as a sub-maximal test of aerobic capacity/endurance.

Population
- TBI/SCI
- pulmonary disease
- osteoarthritis/arthritis
- geriatric
- MS, parkinson’s, dementia

ICF category
- activity

Question 4

Five Times Sit to Stand (5TSTS)

Answer 4

Transfer skill. Quantifies functional LE strength and/or identifies movement strategies a pt. uses to complete transitional movements.

Population
- vestibular
- TBI/SCI
- pulmonary disease
- non-specific
- geriatric
- joint pain/fx
- neuro diseases
- back pain

ICF category
- activity
- participation

Question 5

30 Second Chair Rise Test (30CST)

Answer 5

Assesses functional LE strength in older adults.

Population
- osteoarthritis
- geriatric

ICF category
- activity
- participation

Question 6

Stair Climb Test (SCT)

Answer 6

Functional strength, balance, agility through ascending and descending a set number of steps.

Population
- post THA/TKA

ICF category
- activity

Question 7

Berg Balance Scale (BBS)

Answer 7

Assesses static balance and fall risk in adults.

Population
- vestibular
- TBI/SCI
- neuro diseases
- limb loss and amputation
- geriatric
- intellectual disability

ICF category
- activity
- participation