Responsiveness Of Edinburgh Visual Gait Score On Gait Analysis Among Elderly People

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: newlineChronologically elderly is defined as people aged above 65 years. These elderly people are newlinefacing many challenges due the process of aging such as neurological problems, systemic newlinedisorders, musculoskeletal disorders, psychological problems and gait disorders. All these will newlineincrease the risk of fall in those populations. So we analyzed the gait with in most easiest and newlineconvenient EVGS. We aimed to analyze the responsiveness of Edinburgh visual gait score on newlinegait analysis among elderly people. newlineMETHODS: newlineAfter including the subjects by proper evaluation and after giving informed consent form. The newlinevideos was recorded and collected for all 120 pariticipants. These recorded videos was graded newlineusing Kinovea software according to the EVGS format. Rater 1 was Graded the videos as newlinesession 1, and after a span of two weeks session 2 grading of the same videos was done, mean newlinewhile rater 2 was graded the same videos. All the scores was analyzed using ICC value. newlineRESULTS: newlineThis study showed the ICC excellent reliability for foot component, ICC good reliability for newlineknee and hip component and ICC moderate reliability for pelvis and trunk component of newlineEVGS. newlineCONCLUSION: newlineAs this study has showed good inter rater and intra rater reliability scale can also use in newlineelderly population newline