Administering Functional Assessment Test The Complete Video Series

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Dale Avers, PT, DPT, PhD.
2010
US Price: $99
3 DVD Set
420DVD
4 hours 20 minutes

About the Author | Table of Contents | Companion Software

Watch Dale Avers, PT, DPT, PhD., an experienced clinician and well-known expert on measuring function, demonstrate the proper technqiues and provide detailed instructions and helpful tips for administering 18 of the most commonly used evidence-based functional assessment instruments for aging adults. You will also see and learn how to work with all the equipment necessary to do proper functional assessment evaluations. This set of DVDs is ideal for in-service education and new therapist orientations.

Table of Contents

Disc 1 approximately (1 hr 13 minutes)

• Activities Specific Balance Confidence Scale (ABC)
• Berg Balance Scale
• Clinical Test of Sensory Interaction on Balance (CTSIB)
• Timed Chair Stand Tests (30 Second/5 Repetition/10 Repetition)
• 400 Meter Walk Test & Six Minute Walk Test

Disc 2 approximately (1 hr 32 minutes)

• Dynamic Gait Index
• Four Square Step Test (FSST)
• Functional Reach (FR)
• Physical Performance Test Protocol (PPT)
• Modified Physical Perfomance Test Protocol (M-PPT)

Disc 3 approximately (1 hr 35 minutes)

• Modified Physical Perfomance Test Protocol (M-PPT)
• Postural Assessment Scale for Stroke Patients (PASS)
• Short Physical Peformance Battery (SPPB)
• Timed Up And Go (TUG)
• Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA
  • Tinetti Gait and Balance Assessment

About the Authors

Dale Avers PT, DPT, PhD, is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy. She has received several honors, and awards from organizations such as the Section on Geriatrics, Pi Lambda Theta, Phi Delta Kappa, and PEO most recently receiving the Distinguished Editor Award from the Section on Geriatrics, APTA. She is a past President of the Section on Geriatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association. She speaks nationally on topics related to optimal aging, functional evaluation, exercise and evidence based practice. Dr. Avers has been a practicing clinician in geriatrics and outpatient orthopedics for 30 years, and is currently serving the profession in academia as the Directory of Transitional DPT program at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY.

Companion Resource

Functional Assement Software