Gait Abnormality Rating Scale

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Gait Abnormality Rating Scale
Purposeevaluate individuals who are a risk to fall

Gait Abnormality Rating Scale (GARS)

human gait. It has been evaluated as a screening tool to identify patients at risk for injury from falls.[2] and has been used in remote gait evaluation.[3] A modified version was published in 1996.[4]

Scoring and assessment

The scale comprises three categories:[5]

Each item has a score range from 0 (good function) to 3 (poor function).[6]

The total GARS score is the sum of the 16 individual facets, 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 gait abnormality identified.

References

  1. PMID 2295773
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  2. PMID 9823750
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  3. S2CID 6910676
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  4. PMID 8790277
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  5. ^ "GAIT ASSESSMENT RATING SCALE". Archived from the original on 13 February 2012.
  6. ^ "Abnormal Gait".
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