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Correlation between two clinical balance measures in older adults
— functional mobility and Sensory Organization Test | | Author(s) | Pei-Fang Tang, Sandra Moore, Marjorie H Woollacott |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 53A, no 2, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp M140-M146 |
| Keywords | Mobility ; Mental health [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Living in the community ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Functional mobility of older people has been shown to correlate with stance stability to various extents. The present study investigated the correlations between the performance of older people on a newly developed Sensory-Oriented Mobility Assessment Inventory (SOMAI) and on the various sensory conditions of the Sensory Organization Test (SOT). 27 older Americans living in the community (mean age 76) underwent tests of the six SOT conditions and 10 SOMAI mobility manoeuvres performed under normal- and focal-vision (peripheral vision eliminated) conditions. Performance on the two SOMAI conditions correlated significantly with that on the SOT conditions in which accurate visual, vestibular and somatosensory inputs were all present. There were no correlations between SOMAI performance and performance on the no-vision or unreliable-vision SOT conditions. The ability to use all visual, somatosensory and vestibular inputs for balance correlated with functional mobility. Moderate correlations between the performance on the normal-sensory SOT condition and the SOMAI conditions suggest that body systems other than balance senses also contribute to mobility performance. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010116213 A |
| Classmark | C4: D: 4C: K4: 49: 7T |
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