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Clinical Assessment of Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Patients and Older Adults
Published on: November 7, 2014
Sensory and cognitive functions, gait ability and functionality of older adults
Tirso Duran-Badillo1, Bertha Cecilia Salazar-González2, Juana Edith Cruz-Quevedo3
1Unidad Académica Multidisciplinaria, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Objective:
to know the relationship between the sensory function, gait ability, and cognitive function with dependency in older adults.
Method:
a descriptive cross-sectional design, 146 older adults took part.
Measurements:
Snellen chart, Audiometer, Stereognosia tests, Semmes-Weinstein monofilament, basic aromas and flavors, GAITRite system, Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test, the Barthel Index, and the Lawton and Brody Index.
Results:
sensory function, cognitive function and gait explain 25% dependence on basic activities of daily life and 21% dependence on instrumental activities of daily life. The variables that influence dependence on basic activities were taste (p=.029), gait speed (p=.009), cadence (p=.002) and step length (p=.001) and, in instrumental activities, gait speed (p=.049), cadence (p=.028) and step length (p=.010).
Conclusion:
gait speed, cadence and stride length are variables that influence both dependence on basic and instrumental activities of daily life.
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