| Gait Abnormality Rating Scale | |
|---|---|
| Purpose | evaluate individuals who are a risk to fall |
Gait Abnormality Rating Scale (GARS) is a videotape-based analysis of 16 facets of human gait. It has been evaluated as a screening tool to identify patients at risk for injury from falls. and has been used in remote gait evaluation. A modified version was published in 1996.
Scoring and assessment
The scale comprises three categories:
- five general facets
- four lower extremity facets
- seven trunk, head and upper extremity facets
Each item has a score range from 0 (good function) to 3 (poor function).
The total GARS score is the sum of the 16 individual facets, and the total score represents a rank ordering of risk for falling, based on the number of gait abnormalities recognized and the severity of any gait abnormality identified.
References
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- VanSwearingen JM, Paschal KA, Bonino P, Yang JF (September 1996). "The modified Gait Abnormality Rating Scale for recognizing the risk of recurrent falls in community-dwelling elderly adults". Phys Ther. 76 (9): 994–1002. doi:10.1093/ptj/76.9.994. PMID 8790277.
- "GAIT ASSESSMENT RATING SCALE". Archived from the original on 13 February 2012.
- "Abnormal Gait".