Determining functional mobility using the Modified Timed Up and Go Test: effects of sensory manipulations.

摘要

To the Editor: It is recommended that mobility assessment tools be made more demanding when targeted to active older adults, to avoid the ceiling effect.1'2 Researchers have incorporated this notion during performing the Timed Up and Go (TUG)3 test by adding secondary tasks4'5 or by increasing the walking distance of the TUG from 3 m to 8 m,6 but these modifications have failed to increase the sensitivity of the TUG to predict future falls5 and or increase the responsiveness to detect age-related differences in mobility.6 The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether adding sensory challenges during mobility assessment would provide a more-sensitive indicator of functional mobility in community-dwelling active older adults.