Abstract Objective The Mini-Balance Evaluation Systems Test (Mini-BESTest) is a balance
scale common to clinical practice, but different scoring has been proposed, that is, total …

Purpose: This study aimed to vet the measurement properties of Brief-BESTest scores in
children, adolescents, and youth with visual impairment and blindness (YVI). Methods: A …

Objective The purpose of this study was to compare the psychometric properties of the Mini-
Balance Evaluation Systems Test (Mini-BESTest) and S-BESTest and to evaluate which is …

Objective: To clarify and compare the structural validity of 3 Balance Evaluation Systems
Tests (BESTest, Mini-BESTest, and Brief-BESTest) in older adults with femoral or vertebral …

Background and Purpose: Walking speed can be used to identify characteristics of frailty in
older adults. It has a strong positive correlation with balance abilities. The Brief-Balance …

Objective To synthesize evidence regarding the psychometric properties of the Brief-
Balance Evaluation Systems Test (BESTest) in assessing postural controls across various …

Evaluation of the internal structure of a scale is important; in fact, it is one of the first steps
required to define a high-quality outcome measure (2). However, some features of this study …

Background: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a common surgical intervention to treat
patients with end-stage knee osteoarthritis. Various studies have shown independently that …

As quedas em idosos podem ocasionar diversas complicações e institucionalização. Há
diversos instrumentos de avaliação do controle postural, no entanto, não há um consenso …

We thank Franchignoni and Giordano for their insightful comments (1) on our article (2). As
their comments suggest, our study has problems regarding generalization based on the …