If patients were unable to walk independently even with standard walking devices (including rolling walking frames) a score of 0 m was recorded.
An estimated 25%to75%5% of patients who are independent before their fracture can neither walk independently nor achieve their previous level of independent living within 1 year following the fracture [ 2].
Walking ability was classified into two categories: able to walk independently without aids and walking independently with one walking aid.
The mean pre-fracture CBI was 96.08 (SD = 6.47), representing good independence in performing ADLs, and 84.6% could walk independently before the fracture.
Further inclusion criteria for participation included being aged 18 or over, and willing and able to walk independently at a comfortable pace for two 10-minute walking sessions.
Despite the unfortunate road safety statistics of child pedestrians and the known health benefits of childhood walking, our transportation networks remain alarmingly dangerous for the few children that still walk independently.
Guides lead parties through the forest but it's OK to walk independently and the snakes, Fidel says, are not poisonous.
She's awake, she's alert, she's speaking and she's beginning to walk independently, and that's all good news.
Of those who break their hips, often in minor falls, half will never walk independently again and a quarter will die of complications within a year.
After completing Wernig's regimen, twenty-five patients were able to walk independently, seven could walk with help, and one did not improve.
They are a partial exoskeleton that allows a user to stand and walk independently, without crutches, and are normally operated by hand controls.
