A Comparative Study of 2 Screening Tools for Locomotive Syndrome (The “Loco-check” and the “GLFS-25”): An Orthopedic Outpatient-based Survey
Youngji Kim, Yoshiyuki Suehara, Midori Ishii, Takayuki Kawasaki, Kiyoshi Matsuoka, Taketo Okubo, Naoko Okubo, Yu Tanabe, Keisuke Akaike, Kenta Mukaihara, Daisuke Kubota, Yuichiro Maruyama, Tsuyoshi Saito & Kazuo Kaneko · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2016
Background: In 2007, the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) proposed the term “locomotive syndrome” (LS) to designate a condition in high-risk groups with musculoskeletal diseases who are highly likely to require nursing care. The JOA developed two screening tools for LS: The...
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10.9734/BJMMR/2016/28194