Balance/Coordination Tests – Flashcards
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Functional Reach Test
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Performance-based test to assess postural responses to voluntary movement preformed during a daily activity.
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Multidirectional Reach Test
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Performance-based test to assess postural responses to voluntary movement in multiple directions.
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Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA) - Tinetti
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Performance-based, easy test, measuring a client's gait and balance. Scored on ability to perform specific tasks.
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Berg Balance
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Developed to measure balance among older people with impairments by assessing the performance of functional tasks.
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Modified Clinical Test of Sensory Integration on Balance (mCTSIB)
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Alternative to computerized posturography. Allows for preliminary assessment of how well a pt can integrate various senses with respect to balance and compensate when one or more of these senses are compromised.
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Romberg Test
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With eyes open, 3 sensory systems provide input to the cerebellum to maintain truncal stability (vision, proprioceptive, vestibular).
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Sharpened Romberg
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Developed to improve original Romberg
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One Leg Stance
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Quantify balance ability in higher functioning children and adults.
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Four Square Step Test
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Reliable, valid, easy test, involving stepping over low objects and movement in 4 directions
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Coordination Tests
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Speech alternating movts, tremor, rebound, check reflex, hand rapid alternating movts/finger tap, finger-to-nose, foot rapid alternating movts, toe-to-finger, heel-to-shin, overshoot
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Backward Release Test
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Information on the client's automatic postural control
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Dynamic Gait Index
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Developed to assess the likelihood of falling in older adults - tests 8 facets of gait.
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Walk on Floor Eyes Closed (WOFEC)
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Quantifiable test for gait ataxia
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Standing Stork Test
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Assesses single-leg stance balance (eyes open or closed)
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Star Excursion Balance Test (SEBT)
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Assesses ability to maintain COM within the BOS
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Activities of Balance Confidence Scale (ABC)
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Confidence in daily activities requiring differing levels of balance
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Falls Efficacy Scale
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Indoor activities and confidence
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Frailty and Injuries: Cooperative Studies of Intervention Techniques (FICSIT-4)
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Two balance scales with 3 or 4 familiar tests of static balance such that the relative difficulties were taken into consideration.
