The Importance of Functional Assessments in Physical Therapy

I think about it all the time and say you know is it what I think that a 70 year old person can do or is it asking the client where they were at from a baseline perspective. There are some amazing outcome measures such as the preclinical disability mobility scale. And there's also things like the seniors fitness test which actually can place people into clinical geriatric syndrome typically aging community dwelling older adults. It kind of has norms and values for these different individuals based on where we would place them from our clinical perspective.