Purpose
  Designed for functional assessment of Parkinson’s Disease
         
                  
                  
              Acronym
  Modified PAS
          
                          
            
  
Area of Assessment
  Activities & Participation
  Bodily Functions
          
                          
            
  
Assessment Type
  Performance Measure
          
                          
            
  
Administration Mode
  Paper & Pencil
          
                          
            
  
Cost
  Free
          
                                       
      
      Diagnosis/Conditions
    
      - Parkinson's Disease & Movement Disorders
 
     
          
        
          
          
      
    
      - Consists of 14 items arranged into three domains: 
 1) Chair Transfer (2 items)
 2) Gait Akinesia (6 items)
 3) Bed Mobility (6 items)
- Observer scores the quality of movements while the patient performs these activities.
- Scores range from 0 (dependent) to 4 (normal).
- Exception: if patient is unable to stand without using hands, then the patient is retest with use of hands and scoring changes to a 0 (dependent) to 2 (normal) range.
- Total possible score = 56
 
          
          
      
    
      - Chair with 40 cm seat height (or if at patient’s home, the chair that causes the greatest problems to the patient and is used frequently) 
- Plastic Cup, ¾ full of water 
- Tape 
- Bed 
- Pillow, sheets and blanket or duvet
 
          
          
      
Required Training
        No Training
  
                    
         
       
    
    
      
        
  Instrument Reviewers
  Initially reviewed by Suzanne O’Neal, PT, DPT, NCS & the PD EDGE Task Force of the Neurology Section of the APTA
       
      
                  
            
 
Body Structure
 Upper Extremity
 Lower Extremity
          
                                  
            
  
ICF Domain
  Body Function
  Activity
  Participation
          
                          
            
 
Measurement Domain
 Motor
          
               
              
          
  Professional Association Recommendation
  Recommendations for use of the instrument from the Neurology Section of the American Physical Therapy Association’s Multiple Sclerosis Taskforce (MSEDGE), Parkinson’s Taskforce (PD EDGE), Spinal Cord Injury Taskforce (PD EDGE), Stroke Taskforce (StrokEDGE), Traumatic Brain Injury Taskforce (TBI EDGE), and Vestibular Taskforce (Vestibular EDGE) are listed below. These recommendations were developed by a panel of research and clinical experts using a modified Delphi process.
For detailed information about how recommendations were made, please visit:  ANPT Outcome Measures Recommendations (EDGE)
| Abbreviations: |   | 
| HR | Highly Recommend | 
| R | Recommend | 
| LS / UR | Reasonable to use, but limited study in target group  / Unable to Recommend | 
| NR | Not Recommended | 
 
Recommendations Based on Parkinson Disease Hoehn and Yahr stage: 
|   | I | II | III | IV | V | 
| PD EDGE | LS/UR | LS/UR | LS/UR | LS/UR | NR | 
 
Recommendations for entry-level physical therapy education and use in research:
|   | Students should learn to administer this tool? (Y/N) | Students should be exposed to tool? (Y/N) | Appropriate for use in intervention research studies? (Y/N) | Is additional research warranted for this tool (Y/N) | 
| PD EDGE | No | No | No | Not reported | 
         
      
              
          
  Considerations
  No ceiling effect found in this study however the number of subjects were relatively small (n = 15)
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