چکیده:
Objectives: Deterioration in postural control mechanisms is termed postural instability and results increased postural sway and many laboratory techniques and instruments are characterized by a wide range of neurological signs and symptoms to the medical management. Thus the current study designed to assess the reliability of commonly used clinical measures of balance and determined normal values. Also, the second purpose was scrutiny of effect age, length weight and body mass index (BMI) on perform clinical balance tests. Method: One hundred and thirty three participants (18- 59 years), that have at least three time sports activity in one week, performed three timed tests: Time- up and Go (TUG), Tandem Gait (TG), and Walking on Balance Beam (WOBB) on firm surface. Results: Reliability data were produced for each tests of motor performance. We found that the first performance of three trials was slower, and the relationship between some factors and these battery tests were examined. Means (± SD) for each measure were averaged across three trials. Time to complete TG was 13.6 ± 1.1s. TUG value was 6.9 ± 1.03 and WOBB was 6.9 ± 1.03s. Conclusions: our results revealed that three clinical balance test batteries - TUG, TG and WOBB tests are the stability measures to assess of sports related concussion. Also, the results of current study appeared that the time to perform these tests was slower than the other studies.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Method: One hundred and thirty three participants (18- 59 years), that have at least three time sports activity in one week, performed three timed tests: Time- up and Go (TUG), Tandem Gait (TG), and Walking on Balance Beam (WOBB) on firm surface.
Conclusions: our results revealed that three clinical balance test batteries - TUG, TG and WOBB tests are the stability measures to assess of sports related concussion.
Schneiders et al (2010) determined normative values for TG test and demonstrated that TG had excellent reliability in the neurological assessment of sport concussion.
Therefore, the purpose of this study was to screening of three timed tests of motor performance for used in evaluation of sports concussion and to verify normative values for these tests.
Discussion In this study TG, WOBB, and TUG proved to be reliable tests and to be used to neurologically screen for sports-related concussion.
In due to significant effect of age in studies (34), it was considered important to utilization age different in performance tests batteries and should be apply in assessments sport concussion.
Our study is the first tests reliability research in concussion in Iran, and further investigation is necessary to evaluate these motor performance measures to other health subjects and functional status parameters.
Conclusion These conclusions provided reliability levels for TG, TUG and WOBB suggesting they are clinically feasible outcome measures of balance in neurological of sports related concussion, and more investigations recommended with using these three tools.
Normative values for three clinical measures of motor performance used in the neurological assessment of sports concussion.