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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2633</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url">http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2019.11183</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Efficacy of Four Square Step Test and Modified Dynamic Gait Index to Predict the Falls in Parkinson__ampersandsignrsquo;s Disease: A Comparative Study&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Joshi</surname><given-names>Snehal</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Joshi</surname><given-names>Swapnali</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>28</day><month>09</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><volume>8)</volume><issue/><fpage>12</fpage><lpage>17</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: This study evaluated the efficacy of Four square step test (FSST) and modified dynamic gait index (mDGI) in patients with Parkinson__ampersandsignrsquo;s disease to evaluate balance. In this study 50 individuals with Parkinson__ampersandsignrsquo;s disease were assessed according to Hoen Yahr scale (grades between 1to 3), were subjected to FSST and mDGI.&#13;
Results: FSST and m DGI scores were taken of the same patient. and sensitivity and specificity were also calculated. Both these scales show a highly significant negative correlation with each other (. r= __ampersandsignndash; 0.88, P__ampersandsignlt;0.001)&#13;
Conclusion: Thus the study concluded that both FSST and MDGI are equally effective for evaluating balance in individuals with Parkinson__ampersandsignrsquo;s disease.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Sensitivity</kwd><kwd> Specificity</kwd><kwd> Balance</kwd><kwd> Parkinson’s disease</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
