Sharpening the Tandem Walking Test for Screening Peripheral Neuropathy
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Sharpening the tandem walking test for screening peripheral neuropathy.
OBJECTIVE Few tests of functional motor behavior are useful for rapidly screening people for lower extremity peripheral neuropathy. The goal of this study was to improve the widely used tandem walking (TW) test. METHODS We tested "normal" (control) adult and ambulatory patients with peripheral neuropathy (PN) with their eyes open and eyes closed while they performed TW on industrial carpeting...
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عنوان ژورنال: Southern Medical Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0038-4348
DOI: 10.1097/smj.0000000000000009