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10 Meter Walk Test

Overview and Statistics

 

Purpose: Assesses gait speed over a distance of 10 meters

Diagnoses Assessed:

  • Alzheimer's Disease
  • MS
  • Parkinson's Disease
  • SCI
  • Stroke
  • TBI
  • Geriatrics

Disease-Specific Statistical Breakdown:

Parkinson's Disease:

  • MDC 
    • Comfortable gait speed=.18 m/s
    • Fastest gait speed=.28 m/s
  • Test-retest reliability
    • Comfortable gait speed=.96
    • Fastest gait speed=.97

SCI:

  • SEM=.05 m/s
  • MDC=.13 m/s
  • MCID=.06 m/s
  • Test-retest reliability=.95-.99
  • Intra-rater reliability=.98
  • Inter-rater reliability=.97

Stroke:

  • SEM=.04 m/s
  • MCID
    • Small meaningful change=.06 m/s
    • Substantial meaningful change=.14 m/s
  • Cut-off scores
    • <.4 m/s=increased likelihood of household ambulators
    • .4-.8 m/s=limited community ambulators
    • >.8 m/s=community ambulators
  • Test-retest reliability=.95-.99
  • Intra-rater reliability=.87-.88
  • Inter-rater reliability=.99

TBI:

  • MDC=.05 m/sec
  • MCID
    • Comfortable gait speed=.15 m/s
    • Fastest gait speed=.25 m/s
  • Test-retest reliability=.97-.99
  • Inter-rater reliability=.99

Geriatrics:

  • SEM=.06 m/s
  • MCID
    • Small meaningful change=.05 m/s
    • Substantial meaningful change=.13 m/s

Resources

1. Rehab measures: 10 Meter Walk Test. Rehabilitation Measures Database Web site. 2014. Available at: http://www.rehabmeasures.org/Lists/RehabMeasures/PrintView.aspx?ID=901. Accessed March 17, 2014.