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Ten-metre walk, with or without a turn?

Irene EH van Herk

Northern Centre for Health Care Research, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

J Hans Arendzen

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University Hospital Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Piet Rispens

Department of Human Movement Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Objective: To compare results obtained using different procedures to measure 10-metre walking time.

Design: Walking was timed over a straight 10 m, and over 5 m with return. Further, the time taken to turn was measured directly.

Setting: Rehabilitation department of a university hospital.

Subjects: Patients who had walking disability after stroke.

Results: In the group of 43 patients, the time taken to walk 5 m and return was 3.3 (SD 5.0) s longer than the time to walk 10 m straight, but there was a large variation with some patients walking faster. The measured time to turn in a second group of 27 patients was 3.2 (SD 1.6) s. The times taken to walk 10 m straight and 5 m and return, and the time taken to turn were all highly correlated (r = 0.69 or more).

Conclusions: Timing walking over 5 m with a return is an acceptable alternative to the 10 m straight walk, but the actual time taken varies. On average, the walk with a turn is 3.2 s longer but in individual patients the difference may be much more or less. Sometimes the walk with a turn is even faster than that without.

Clinical Rehabilitation, Vol. 12, No. 1, 30-35 (1998)
DOI: 10.1191/026921598667081596


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