Clinimetric properties of a walking scale in peripheral neuropathy

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J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2006 Mar 30

Clinimetric properties of a walking scale in peripheral neuropathy.

Graham RC, RA.

Division of Applied Biomedical Sciences, King's College London, United

Kingdom.

Many people with peripheral neuropathies have difficulty walking, but

walking ability is not comprehensively measured by commonly used

outcome measures. We investigated the clinimetric properties of the 12

item multiple sclerosis walking scale (Walk-12) in 65 patients with

peripheral neuropathies. It had excellent internal consistency,

reliability, and correlated strongly with measures of physical and

social function (r>0.8). It is therefore recommended for measuring

walking ability in peripheral neuropathies.