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Normal Values Of Balance Tests In Women Aged 20 - 80, Rosemary Isles, Nancy Low Choy, Marie Steers, Jennifer Nitz
Normal Values Of Balance Tests In Women Aged 20 - 80, Rosemary Isles, Nancy Low Choy, Marie Steers, Jennifer Nitz
Nancy Low Choy
Objectives:
To determine normal values for four commonly used clinical functional balance tests from community-dwelling women aged 20 to 80 and to identify any significant decline due to aging.
Design:
A cross-sectional study was undertaken to provide normative values for four clinical balance tests across 6 decade cohorts.
Setting:
The Betty Byrne-Henderson Center for Women and Aging, Royal Womens' Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
Participants:
Four hundred fifty-six community-dwelling, independently ambulant women with no obvious neurological or musculoskeletal-related disability, aged 20 to 80, were randomly recruited from a large metropolitan region.
Measurements:
The clinical balance measures/tests were the Timed Up and Go …