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Set-up Verbal Instructions:
- Stand tall with your feet together and toes touching the test kit.
- Grasp the dowel in both hands and place it on top of your head so your shoulders and elbows are at 90 degrees. Then while maintaining hand position, lower dowel to the base of the neck and across the shoulders.
- While keeping an upright torso, raise the right leg and step over the hurdle, making sure to raise the foot towards the shin and maintain foot alignment vertically with the ankle, knee and hip.
- Touch the floor with your heel and return to the starting position while maintaining the same alignment.
Tips for testing:
- Ensure the cord is aligned properly.
- Tell the client to stand as tall as possible at the beginning of the test.
- Score the moving leg.
- Repeat the test on both sides.
- The client can perform the movement up to three times on each side if necessary.
- Watch for a stable torso.
- Observe from the front and side.
- Make sure the toes of the stance leg stay in contact with the hurdle during and after each repetition.
- If the client physically cannot bring the feet together to touch, ask them to bring their feet together as close as possible with toes touching the test kit, then allow them to perform test from that position.
Scoring:
3:
- Hips, knees and ankles remain aligned in the sagittal plane
- Minimal to no movement in lumbar spine
- Dowel and hurdle remain parallel
2:
- Alignment is lost between hips, knees and ankles
- Movement in Lumbar Spine
- Dowel and hurdle do not remain parallel
1:
- Inability to clear the cord during the hurdle step
- Loss of Balance
0:
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