Reliability and validity of the Shaw gait assessment tool for temporospatial gait assessment in people with hemiparesis.

Objective: To assess the intra-/interrater reliability and the validity of the free web-based Shaw Gait Assessment Tool (with visual and numerical output) for assessing speed, cadence, step length, and limb advance time in people with hemiplegic gait.

Design: Intra-/interrater reliability and concurrent validity with 2 raters using the Shaw Gait Assessment Tool and 1 rater using a multimemory stopwatch.

Setting: Busy outpatient rehabilitation gym at a tertiary care medical center.

Browse selection in response to simulated seasonal changes in diet quality through postingestive effects.

Browse species undergo seasonal changes in nutritional value and secondary plant compound concentrations. The capacity of herbivores to monitor such change through postingestive effects and to modify their food choice appropriately was investigated. Twenty-four goats were offered a different conifer species on four successive learning days per 7-d period for six periods.

Validity and reliability of an internet-based temporal gait assessment tool with healthy adults: a pilot study.

Objectives: To assess in healthy adults the validity and the inter- and intrarater reliability of the Internet-based Shaw Gait Assessment (SGA).

Design: Concurrent test-retest reliability and validity study with participants, 4 raters, and the Elite motion analysis system (used as the criterion standard).

Setting: Motion analysis laboratory in a university physical therapy department.

Educating back-injured workers: What should we be teaching?

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to identify what information people with acute and chronic back pain, health care practitioners, employers and case managers felt should be included in an educational brochure for recently back-injured workers. STUDY DESIGN: Four focus groups were convened, each comprising several representatives from one of the four constituencies. Participants rated 32 information items regarding their inclusion in an educational brochure.