ArticleThe journal of spinal cord medicine2017
Measuring balance confidence after spinal cord injury: the reliability and validity of the Activities-specific Balance Confidence Scale.
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- Using the Standing and Walking Assessment Tool at Discharge Predicts Community Outdoor Walking Capacity in Persons With Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury.Physical therapy · 2023Article
- Clinical Static Balance Assessment: A Narrative Review of Traditional and IMU-Based Posturography in Older Adults and Individuals with Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- Perspectives of individuals with chronic spinal cord injury following novel balance training involving functional electrical stimulation with visual feedback: a qualitative exploratory study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Evaluating Intrinsic Fall Risk Factors After Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: Distinguishing Fallers From Nonfallers.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2021Article
- Effect of Dance on Balance, Mobility, and Activities of Daily Living in Adults With Cerebral Palsy: A Pilot Study.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- Postural control strategy after incomplete spinal cord injury: effect of sensory inputs on trunk-leg movement coordination.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2020Article
- Functional Electrical Stimulation Plus Visual Feedback Balance Training for Standing Balance Performance Among Individuals With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Series.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Article
- The standing and walking assessment tool for individuals with spinal cord injury: A qualitative study of validity and clinical use.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2019Article
- Fall Prevalence and Contributors to the Likelihood of Falling in Persons With Upper Limb Loss.Physical therapy · 2019Article
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objectiveThe study objectives were to evaluate the test-retest reliability, convergent validity, and discriminative validity of the Activities-specific Balance Confidence (ABC) scale in individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI).
designProspective, cross-sectional study.
settingLaboratory.
participantsTwenty-six community-dwelling individuals with chronic iSCI (20 males, 59.7 + 18.9 years old) and 26 age- and sex-matched able-bodied (AB) individuals participated.
interventionsNone. OUTCOME MEASURES: Measures of balance and gait were collected over two days. Clinical measures included the ABC scale, Mini-Balance Evaluation System's Test, 10-meter Walk Test, SCI Functional Ambulation Profile, manual muscle testing of lower extremity muscles, and measures of lower extremity proprioception and cutaneous pressure sensitivity. Biomechanical measures included the velocity and sway area of centre of pressure (COP) movement during quiet standing.
resultsThe ABC scale demonstrated high test-retest reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.93) among participants with iSCI. The minimal detectable change was 14.87%. ABC scale scores correlated with performance on all clinical measures (ρ=0.60-0.80, P<0.01), with the exception of proprioception and cutaneous pressure sensitivity (P=0.20-0.70), demonstrating convergent validity. ABC scale scores also correlated with overall COP velocity (ρ=-0.69, P<0.001) and COP velocity in the anterior-posterior direction (ρ=-0.71, P<0.001). Participants with iSCI scored significantly lower on the ABC scale than the AB participants (P<0.001), and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.95, demonstrating discriminative validity.
conclusionThe ABC scale is a reliable and valid measure of balance confidence in community-dwelling, ambulatory individuals with chronic iSCI.
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