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Clinical Assessment of Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Patients and Older Adults
Published on: November 7, 2014
Inter- and intraobserver repeatability of the Salford Gait Tool: an observation-based clinical gait assessment tool
Brigitte Toro1, Christopher J Nester, Pauline C Farren
1Centre for Rehabilitation and Human Performance Research, University of Salford, Salford, England.
Objective:
To evaluate the inter- and intraobserver repeatability of the Salford Gait Tool (SF-GT), a new observation-based gait assessment tool for evaluating sagittal plane cerebral palsy (CP) gait.
Design:
Masked comparative evaluation.
Setting:
University in the United Kingdom.
Participants:
A convenience sample of 23 pediatric physical therapists with varying degrees of clinical experience recruited from the Greater Manchester area.
Intervention:
Participants viewed videotapes of the sagittal plane gait of 13 children and used the SF-GT to analyze their 13 different gait styles on 2 occasions. Eleven children had hemiplegic, diplegic, or quadriplegic CP and 2 were neurologically intact.
Main Outcome Measures:
Inter- and intraobserver repeatability of hip, knee, and ankle joint positions at 6 different phases of the gait cycle.
Results:
The SF-GT demonstrated good interobserver (77%) and intraobserver (75%) repeatability.
Conclusions:
We have established that the SF-GT is a repeatable clinical assessment tool with which to guide the diagnosis, treatment planning, and evaluation of interventions by pediatric physical therapists of sagittal plane gait deviations in CP.
