TIMED UP AND GO TEST (TUG)
Exploring the Use of the Timed Up and Go Test to Identify Patient Fall Risk in an Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Unit
... TUG Test Procedures The inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit used for sampling is a 22 bed unit located within the suburban New York inpatient psychiatry campus of a major academic medical ...The Timed ...
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Is the Timed Up and Go test a useful predictor of risk of falls in community dwelling older adults: a systematic review and meta- analysis
... Discussion Statement of principal findings This systematic review demonstrates that the diagnostic accuracy of the Timed Up and Go test is limited at the widely used cut point of ≥13.5 seconds ...
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Is the Timed Up and Go test a useful predictor of risk of falls in community dwelling older adults: a systematic review and meta- analysis.
... Discussion Statement of principal findings This systematic review demonstrates that the diagnostic accuracy of the Timed Up and Go test is limited at the widely used cut point of ≥13.5 seconds ...
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TIMED UP AND GO TEST AND TINETTI PERFORMANCE ORIENTED MOBILITY ASSESSMENT IN PREDICTING FALLS IN HEMIPARETIC STROKE PATIENTS
... appropriately timed and scaled responses to maintain ...viz. Timed Up and Go test (TUG) and Performance Oriented Mobility Test (POMA) in fall prediction among patients with sub ...
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Does the timed up and go test predict future falls among British community dwelling older people? Prospective cohort study nested within a randomised controlled trial
... Gotaro Kojima 1* , Tahir Masud 2 , Denise Kendrick 3 , Richard Morris 1 , Sheena Gawler 1 , Jonathan Treml 4 and Steve Iliffe 1 Abstract Background: Falling is common among older people. The ...
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON PREDICTION OF FALLS IN PARKINSONS DISEASE SUBJECTS USING TIMED UP AND GO TEST WITH TINETTI MOBILITY TEST
... In Timed up and go test things used were chair, stop watch and a distance of total 6 ...the test. Subjects were instructed to cover a distance of total 6m. The test was initiated ...
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Validity and Reliability of Timed Up and Go Test on Dynamic Balance in 3 5 Years Old Preschool Children
... *Corresponding author: Lei Y, School of Physical Education, University of Jinan, Shandong, China, Tel: +86 531 8276 5454; E-mail: [email protected] Received April 26, 2017; Accepted June 15, 2017; Published June 22, ...
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The reliability and minimal detectable change of Timed Up and Go test in individuals with grade 1 – 3 knee osteoarthritis
... The Timed “ Up & Go ” test: reliability and validity in persons with unilateral lower limb ...The Timed Up and Go Test for Use on an Inpatient Orthopaedic ...
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Validity and Reliability of Timed Up and Go Test on Dynamic Balance in 3 5 Years Old Preschool Children
... *Corresponding author: Lei Y, School of Physical Education, University of Jinan, Shandong, China, Tel: +86 531 8276 5454; E-mail: [email protected] Received April 26, 2017; Accepted June 15, 2017; Published June 22, ...
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<p>Predicting Adverse Outcomes in Healthy Aging Community-Dwelling Early-Old Adults with the Timed Up and Go Test</p>
... assessment, Timed Up and Go test Introduction Population aging has profound implications for the planning and delivery of health and social ...
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Automating the timed up and go test using a depth camera
... The Timed Up and Go (TUG) test is widely used to identify individuals with a high fall ...this test has been criticized because its “diagnostic” is too dependent on the conditions in ...
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The association between timed up and go test and history of falls: The Tromsø study
... tested in TUG may not challenge to these systems suffi- ciently to detect problems that are important in a fall risk situation. More specific tests of strength, coordination, proprioception and vision may be more ...
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Assessment of the risk of falling with the use of timed up and go test in the elderly with lower extremity osteoarthritis
... As a result, an abnormal gait with a displacement of the center of gravity toward the side of the painful hip occurs. 29 Varela-Burstein and Miller 30 found that the presence of any arthritis or joint pain to be a risk ...
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Timed up and go test combined with self-rated multifactorial questionnaire on falls risk and sociodemographic factors predicts falls among community-dwelling older adults better than the timed up and go test on its own
... single test on its ...balance test along with other factors (AUC: ...balance test may be inappropriate for older adults as it has been reported to have the highest recorded rates of refusal and ...
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The history of falls and the association of the timed up and go test to falls and near-falls in older adults with hip osteoarthritis
... If near-falls are a good predictor of future falling, then the TUG could be a useful indicator for risk of future falls. Similar to other studies, we found that the profile of older adults that score less than 10 seconds ...
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Isometric Strength Measures are Superior to the Timed Up and Go Test for Fall Prediction in Older Adults: Results from a Prospective Cohort Study
... Conclusions The present study shows that isometric knee extension and handgrip strength measures can differentiate between fallers and non-fallers among older adults, these differences remain- ing significant even when ...
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Association between mild cognitive impairment and trajectory-based spatial parameters during timed up and go test using a laser range sensor
... walk test which is longer than TUG test is measured, the stationary LRS measurement system is impossible to measure the walk outside of the sensor ...
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The geriatric depression scale and the timed up and go test predict fear of falling in community-dwelling elderly women with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study
... practical test designed to evaluate overall performance of the lower limbs, functional mobility and dynamic balance ...TUG test compared with those without a fear of ...TUG test in ...TUG ...
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Timed Up and Go Test can predict recurrent falls: a longitudinal study of the community-dwelling elderly in China
... Limitations There were some limitations. First, we could not assess the complete population of elderly individuals; our participants were relatively healthy, community-dwelling older adults who volunteered to participate ...
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A study of timed get up and go scores as falls risk assessment in elderly in a tertiary care centre
... The Timed Up and Go test has limited ability to predict falls in community dwelling ...The Timed Up and Go test (TUG) helps assist clinicians to identify patients ...
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