Inter- and Intraobserver Repeatability of the Salford Gait Tool: An Observation-Based Clinical Gait Assessment Tool

Development and validation of an innovative tool for the assessment of biomechanical strategies: The Timed “Up and Go” – Assessment of Biomechanical Strategies (TUG-ABS) for individuals with stroke

“…The sample size was determined to guarantee a minimum number of subjects, which provided a wide range and the most even spread of variability in TUG performances, as was recommended (18,19,29) and previously adopted (15,(30)(31)(32).…”

5th National Congress of the Italian Society of Physiotherapy

“…SF-GT evaluates in a sagittal plane the position of the lower limb joints during six specific events of the gait cycle. A good reproducibility is reported for the tool, the mean percentage agreement was found to be 77% and 75% for inter-and intra-rater reliability, respectively (Toro et al, 2007). Some studies (Ong et al, 2008, Viehweger et al, 2010, Brunnekreef et al, 2005 showed that the reliability of observational gait analysis may be influenced by the clinical experience of the raters.…”

Ambulant adults with spastic cerebral palsy: The validity of lower limb joint angle measurements from sagittal video recordings

“…When a person demonstrates a pathological gait strategy in the transverse plane, this will give a false image when estimating joint angles by the use of a sagittal plane video recording. Several studies have reported the reliability of VGA to be satisfactory [4][5][6][7][8]16]. However, reliability does not guarantee validity, and responsiveness includes them both [11].…”

“…In contrast to the categorical approach in most VGA-tools, the Salford Gait Tool (SF-GT) [9] is based on visually estimation of exact joint angles in the hip, knee and ankle at six selected events during the gait cycle, and then categorisation of them. The validity and reliability or SF-GT in children with CP has been established by comparing SF-GT with sagittal 3DGA kinematics [9,16]. Another study using a quantitative approach [17], compares measurements of six selected joint angles on a video screen using software program with simultaneous 3DGA sagittal kinematics.…”