Turning speed as a more responsive metric of age-related decline in mobility: A comparative study with gait speed.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Navigating your environment requires both straight-line gait as well as turning. Gait speed normative values are well established and utilized in determining a person's functional status, however, it has limitations. This study sought to examine whether turning speed declines with age and how it compared to gait speed age-related decline.

Methods

A secondary analysis was performed on 275 community dwelling adults between the ages of 18-88 that performed a timed walking test with an inertial measurement unit on their lumbar spine. Turning speed and walking speed were extracted for each participant. A series of mixed models were compared, and Akaike's Information Criterion was used to determine the best fit model between age and turning speed and age and gait speed.

SUBMITTER: Weston AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10955671 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature