Berg Balance Scale

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The Berg Balance Scale (Berg Balance Scale, BBS, also Berg Balance Score) is a test procedure first described by KO Berg in 1989, with which the balance behavior can be determined on the basis of 14 short, practical tests in 20 minutes.

Test procedure

The test includes:

  1. Transfer - Sitting / Standing
  2. Transfer - Standing / Sitting
  3. Transfer - Sitting / Sitting
  4. Free sitting
  5. Free standing
  6. Standing with eyes closed
  7. Standing, feet close together
  8. Tandem stand (feet behind each other)
  9. Look around while standing
  10. Complete a full turn while standing
  11. Pick up the object from the floor
  12. Steppe (alternately four times with each foot)
  13. To stand on one leg
  14. Extend arms horizontally forwards (with bending of the upper body)

rating

The examiner evaluates the statements according to precise specifications with a score from 0 (bad) to 4 (good). The test is considered to be very good in terms of its inter-tester and intra-tester reliability . The test result can be used to assess the risk of falling .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KO Berg, BE Maki u. a .: Clinical and laboratory measures of postural balance in an elderly population. In: Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation. Volume 73, Number 11, November 1992, pp. 1073-1080, ISSN  0003-9993 . PMID 1444775 .
  2. ↑ Berg Balance Scale (BBS). MT-DOK, accessed June 11, 2014 .

literature

  • KO Berg, SL Wood-Dauphinee, JI Williams, B. Maki: Measuring balance in the elderly: validation of an instrument. In: Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de santé publique. Volume 83 Suppl 2, 1992 Jul-Aug, pp. S7-11, ISSN  0008-4263 . PMID 1468055 .
  • E. Scherfer, C. Bohls, et al. a .: Berg-Balance-Scale - German version. In: physioscience. 2, 2006, pp. 59-66, doi : 10.1055 / s-2006-926833 .

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