Gait Abnormality Rating Scale
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Gait Abnormality Rating Scale (GARS) (Wolfson et al., 1990) is a videotape-based analysis of 16 facets of human gait. The scale comprises three categories:
- five general categories
- four lower extremity categories
- seven trunk, head and upper extremity categories.
Each item has a score range from 0 (good function) to 3 (poor function). The total GARS score is the sum of the 16 individual items, and the total score represents a rank ordering of risk for falling, based on the number of gait abnormalities recognized and the severity of any abnormality identified.
[edit] References
- Physiother Res Int. 2005;10(3):164-8. Case report: physiotherapy strategies for a patient with conversion disorder presenting abnormal gait. Oh DW, Yoo EY, Yi CH, Kwon OY.
