Reliability of the 50-foot walk test and 30-sec chair stand test in total knee arthroplasty

Bayram Unver, Serpil Kalkan, Ertugrul Yuksel, Turhan Kahraman, Vasfi Karatosun, Bayram Unver, Serpil Kalkan, Ertugrul Yuksel, Turhan Kahraman, Vasfi Karatosun

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the reliability of the 50-Foot Walk Test (50 FWT) and 30-second Chair Stand Test (30 CST) in patients who have undergone total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

Methods: The study was designed as a test-retest research. Thirty-three patients who would undergo bilateral TKA were recruited. The tests 30 CST and 50 FWT were performed twice on the same day with 5-minute intervals, respectively. Between the first and second tests, patients waited for an hour on sitting position in order to prevent fatigue. In addition to these tests, we registered the knee pain experienced by the patients using a 100 mm VAS scale.

Results: The 50 FWT and 30 CST showed excellent reliability. ICC for 50 FWT and 30 CST were 0.97 and 0.92, respectively. SRD95 was 1.07 for 50 FWT and 0.96 for 30 CST.

Conclusions: According to results of this study, both 50 FWT and 30 CST have excellent reliability in patients with TKA. These tests are simple, no time consuming and constitute sensitive methods to measure the functional performance in patients with TKA in the clinical settings. Clinicians and researchers may use these tests to quantify even small changes in functional performance for patients with TKA. Level of Evidence III, Diagnostic Study.

Keywords: Arthroplasty; Knee; Performance tests; Rehabilitation; Replacement.

Conflict of interest statement

All the authors declare that there is no potential conflict of interest referring to this article.

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