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get up & go test

by Rein Tideiksaar, PhD

Have patient sit in straight-backed chair and ask him/her to:

• Get up (without use of armrests, if possible).
  
  
• Stand still momentarily.
  
  
• Walk forward 10 feet.
  
  
• Turn around and walk back to the chair.
  
  
• Sit back down in the chair.
  

Any observed change in gait, strength or balance is abnormal.

October 2005

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