Ecological validity of walking capacity tests following rehabilitation in people with multiple sclerosis
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Ecological Validity of Walking Capacity Tests in Multiple Sclerosis
BACKGROUND Ecological validity implicates in how far clinical assessments refer to real life. Short clinical gait tests up to ten meters and 2- or 6-Minutes Walking Tests (2MWT/6MWT) are used as performance-based outcomes in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) studies and considered as moderately associated with real life mobility. OBJECTIVE To investigate the ecological validity of 10 Meter Walking Test...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220613