The short physical performance battery (SPPB) is a simple standardised objective assessment tool of lower limb function[ 16 ] that tests standing balance, ability to repeatedly stand from a sitting position, and habitual gait speed.
6 The SPPB/LLSPS involves the timed performance on three tests: standing balance, sit-to-stand ability, and gait speed.
These health-related (i.e., strength, flexibility) and skill-related (i.e., balance, coordination, speed) components of physical fitness [ 13] were assessed using physical fitness tests (i.e., Bourban TMS test, standing long jump test, 20-m sprint test, stand-and-reach test, jumping sideways test, Emery balance test, Y balance test).
Thereafter, physical fitness tests (i.e., secondary outcome measures: Emery balance test, Y balance test, stand-and-reach test, 20-m sprint test, jumping sideways test, standing long jump test; primary outcome measures: Bourban TMS test) were assessed.
Future inquiry into this topic may wish to examine associations between driving outcomes and the individual components of these tests (standing balance, usual and rapid walking speed, and chair stands) separately.
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Ankle plantar flexion was tested standing with support and the participant was asked to rise on toes ten times.
To test standing balance, the subjects were asked to attempt to keep their feet in side-by-side, semi-tandem, and tandem positions for 10 seconds each.
In those older adults who perform poorly on a foot-sole somatosensory test, standing balance is more disrupted by the performance of concurrent cognitive tasks (11).
