ArticleJournal of athletic training2017
Clinical Utility of the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 3 (SCAT3) Tandem-Gait Test in High School Athletes.
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- Normative Data for Single- and Dual-Task Tandem Gait Performance in Collegiate Athletes.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- Baseline Normative and Test-Retest Reliability Data for Sideline Concussion Assessment Measures in Youth.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Microglial activation persists beyond clinical recovery following sport concussion in collegiate athletes.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Single-Task and Dual-Task Tandem Gait Performance Across Clinical Concussion Milestones in Collegiate Student-Athletes.Clinical journal of sport medicine : official journal of the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine · 2021Article
- Clinical and Device-based Metrics of Gait and Balance in Diagnosing Youth Concussion.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2020Article
- Tandem Gait Test-Retest Reliability Among Healthy Child and Adolescent Athletes.Journal of athletic training · 2019Article
- ASSESSING STATIC AND DYNAMIC POSTURAL CONTROL IN A HEALTHY POPULATION.Biomedical sciences instrumentation · 2018Article
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Abstract
contextDynamic balance during functional movement may provide important clinical information after concussion. The Sport Concussion Assessment Tool, version 3 (SCAT3), includes a timed tandem-gait test (heel-to-toe walking) administered with a pass-fail scoring system. Minimal evidence supports inclusion of the tandem-gait test in the SCAT3, especially in high school athletes.
objectiveTo determine (1) the percentage of healthy high school athletes who passed (best trial ≤14 seconds) the tandem-gait test at baseline, (2) the association between sex and test performance (pass versus fail), and (3) the relationships among sex, age, height, and tandem-gait test score.
designCross-sectional study.
settingHigh school sports medicine center. PATIENTS OR OTHER
participantsTwo hundred athletes from 4 high schools (age = 15.8 ± 1.2 years, height = 170.3 ± 10.3 cm, weight = 64.8 ± 14.5 kg). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Healthy participants completed 4 trials of the SCAT3 tandem-gait test and a demographic questionnaire. Outcome measures were passing rate at baseline on the tandem-gait test and tandem-gait test score (time).
resultsOverall, 24.5% (49/200) of participants passed the test. Sex and performance were associated (χ
conclusionsOur findings suggest that the tandem-gait test had a high false-positive rate in high school athletes. Given that more than 75% of healthy participants failed the tandem-gait test, the 14-second cutoff appears to have limited clinical utility in the adolescent population. Functional movement deficits after concussion need to be accounted for, but the 14-second cutoff for the SCAT3 tandem-gait test does not appear to be an ideal way to assess these deficits in high school athletes.
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