ArticleThe Laryngoscope2018
Tandem walking as a quick screening test for vestibular disorders.
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- Full-body kinematics and head stabilisation strategies during walking in patients with chronic unilateral and bilateral vestibulopathy.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Screening People on Standing Balance with Romberg Testing and Walking Balance with Tandem Walking.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2023Article
- Motion Analysis of Balance Pre and Post Sensorimotor Exercises to Enhance Elderly Mobility: A Case Study.Applied sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- An Overview of the Available Intervention Strategies for Postural Balance Control in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Autism research and treatment · 2022Review
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- Lack of Familial Aggregation of the "Essential Tremor-Plus" Phenotype in Familial Essential Tremor.Neuroepidemiology · 2022Article
- Aging and the Relationship between Balance Performance, Vestibular Function and Somatosensory Thresholds.The journal of international advanced otology · 2020Article
- Prediction of Functional Limitations in Balance after Tests of Tandem Walking and Standing Balance in Older Adults.Southern medical journal · 2020Article
- Quantitative Evaluation of a New Posturo-Locomotor Phenotype in a Rodent Model of Acute Unilateral Vestibulopathy.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Article
- A review on screening tests for vestibular disorders.Journal of neurophysiology · 2019Review
- Screening for Vestibular Disorders Using the Modified Clinical Test of Sensory Interaction and Balance and Tandem Walking With Eyes Closed.Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectives/hypothesisAlthough many screening tests of balance are available, few of them have been well validated for clinical or research uses. The goal of this study was to test an updated version of an old test, Tandem Walking, to determine how useful it is for screening patients with vestibular disorders. STUDY
designCase-control study.
methodsSubjects were 90 adult patients with vestibular disorders and 292 healthy adult controls. They were tested on the number of correct tandem steps they could perform with arms crossed and eyes closed in a series of 10 steps. Correct steps could be nonconsecutive. Subjects were given one practice trial with eyes open and three experimental trials with eyes closed.
resultsReceiver operating characteristic (ROC), and sensitivity and specificity were calculated. ROC values, sensitivity, and specificity were, at best, only moderate, no matter how the age range was cut. Even for subjects in the age group with the highest ROC value (i.e., age less than 50 years), ROC = 0.8, sensitivity = 0.77, and specificity = 0.72.
conclusionsThese results indicate that 23% of patients will not be identified. Therefore, we recommend that if this test is used for screening patients in the clinic or healthy volunteers, the result should be interpreted with care. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 3b. Laryngoscope, 128:1687-1691, 2018.
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