The Community Balance and Mobility Scale-a balance measure for individuals with traumatic brain injury

Abstract

The Community Balance and Mobility Scale is a valid and reliable outcome measure for the ambulatory individual with traumatic brain injury.

Between-Rater Reliability of the 6-Minute Walk Test, Berg Balance Scale, and Handheld Dynamometry in People with Multiple Sclerosis

“…After review of 12 studies, it was decided to divide the raters into pairs, as was done by Lafave et al, 16 Hesketh et al, 17 and Howe et al, 18 owing to the effectiveness and efficiency of this methodology as noted in those studies. In accordance with the study carried out by van Loo et al, 19 it was decided that each pair would rate the same BBS and 6MW but mark individually.…”

Concurrent validation of the tandem walk test as a measure of dynamic walking balance in a healthy population

“…The TWT test has been utilized as the dynamic walking balance component of several validated test batteries regarding fall prediction in the elderly, such as the Fullerton Advanced Balance Scale [3,4], the LIFE pilot study protocol [5], Good Walkers Test [6], and the EPIDOS Prospective Study balance protocol [7]. The TWT has been utilized as a test of dynamic walking balance to determine gait stability and pathological quantification including prediction of falls in the elderly population [3,9,[34][35][36][37][38][39][40], diagnose ataxia and other vestibular disorders [29,41], test for vertigo [42], tropical ataxic neuropathy [43], traumatic brain injury [40], peripheral neuropathy [44], and functional mobility [45][46][47][48]. The TWT is considered a clinically efficacious test of dynamic balance in medical text books [29,49] and for research purposes [2,50].…”

Generation and Content Validation of Mobility Domains and Item Pool for Community-dwelling Individuals

“…The scales and questionnaires from which the majority of items were identified were: Rivermead Mobility Index (Collen et al, 1991), Barthel Index (Shah et al, 1989), Functional Independence Measure (Haigh et al, 2001), Stroke Rehabilitation Assessment of Movement (Ahmed et al, 2003), Spinal cord Independence Measure (Catz et al, 1997), Elderly Mobility Scale (Smith, 1994), Clinical Mobility scale (Ware Jr, 1987), Environmental status scale (Stewart et al, 1995), Short form 36 (Ware Jr and Sherbourne, 1992), Community Balance and Mobility scale (Howe et al, 2006) and Environmental Analysis of Mobility Questionnaire (ShumwayCook et al, 2003). In addition to these scales, items were also extracted from certain ambulation profiles including functional ambulation categories (Kollen et al, 2005), Hauser Ambulation Index (Hauser et al, 1983) and Modified Emory Functional Ambulation Index (Baer and Wolf, 2001).…”