The Development of the Short-form of “25-Question Geriatric Locomotive Function Scale”
Yu Tanabe, Yoshiyuki Suehara, Yongji Kim, Shuko Nojiri, Taketo Okubo, Midori Ishii, Takayuki Kawasaki, Kiyoshi Matsuoka, Keisuke Akaike, Kenta Mukaihara, Naoko Okubo, Tsuyoshi Saito & Kazuo Kaneko · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2018
Objectives: In 2007, the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) proposed the term “locomotive syndrome” (LS) to describe a condition in high-risk musculoskeletal disease patients who are highly likely to require nursing care. The JOA developed a screening tool, the 25-question Ge...
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10.9734/JAMMR/2018/40196