Selected Tools for Assessing the Risk of Falls in Older Women

Table 4

Values of correlation coefficients of functional tests and stabilographic parameters assessing fall risk.

	Postural Stability Test (PST)						Fall Risk Test
	OSI EO	APSI EO	MLSI EO	OSI EC	APSI EC	MLSI EC	FRI6-2
Functional Reach Test (FRT)	-0.239	-0.086	-0.205	-0.118	-0.143	-0.113	-0.253
Timed Up and Go (TUG)	0.314	0.231	0.297	0.104	0.156	0.100	0.435
Modified Unterberger test	0.206	0.217	0.276	0.310	0.169	0.378	0.097

EO: eyes open; EC: eyes closed; OSI: overall stability index; APSI: anterior-posterior stability index; MLSI: medial-lateral stability index; Spearman rank correlation test: .