Ecological validity of walking capacity tests in multiple sclerosis.

BACKGROUND:Ecological validity implicates in how far clinical assessments refer to real life. Short clinical gait tests up to ten meters and 2- or 6-Minutes Walking Tests (2MWT/6MWT) are used as performance-based outcomes in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) studies and considered as moderately associated wit...

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Main Authors: J P Stellmann, A Neuhaus, N Götze, S Briken, C Lederer, M Schimpl, C Heesen, M Daumer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4399985?pdf=render