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Gait Abnormality Rating Scale (GARS) is a videotape-based analysis of 16 facets of human gait.

A modified version was published in 1996.

Contents

• 1 Categories
• 2 Total GARS score
• 3 Uses
• 4 See also
• 5 References

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Categories

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).

Total GARS score

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.

Uses

It has been evaluated as a screening tool to identify patients at risk for injury from falls.

It has been used in remote gait evaluation.

See also

• Gait abnormality

References

1. ^ Wolfson L, Whipple R, Amerman P, Tobin JN (January 1990). “Gait assessment in the elderly: a gait abnormality rating scale and its relation to falls”. J Gerontol 45 (1): M12–9. PMID 2295773. 
2. ^ VanSwearingen JM, Paschal KA, Bonino P, Yang JF (September 1996). “The modified Gait Abnormality Rating Scale for recognizing the risk of recurrent falls in community-dwelling elderly adults”. Phys Ther 76 (9): 994–1002. PMID 8790277. 
3. ^ “GAIT ASSESSMENT RATING SCALE”.
4. ^ “Abnormal Gait”.
5. ^ VanSwearingen JM, Paschal KA, Bonino P, Chen TW (November 1998). “Assessing recurrent fall risk of community-dwelling, frail older veterans using specific tests of mobility and the physical performance test of function”. J. Gerontol. A Biol. Sci. Med. Sci. 53 (6): M457–64. PMID 9823750. 
6. ^ Russell TG, Jull GA, Wootton R (2003). “The diagnostic reliability of Internet-based observational kinematic gait analysis”. J Telemed Telecare 9 Suppl 2: S48–51. doi:10.1258/135763303322596255. PMID 14728760. 

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