BACKGROUND: Timed walking speed for 6 to 15 m and the distance walked in 2 to 12 minutes are frequently used outcome measures in rehabilitation trials, presumably reflecting different aspects of walking ability. The database from the @entity1566 Locomotor Trial (SCILT), which tested 2 interventions for mobility upon admission for initial rehabilitation of an incomplete traumatic @entity1566 ( @entity1566 ), was used to compare the walking speed employed for each test. METHODS: From 66 to 70 @entity1 with upper motor neuron lesions from @entity54363 -10 performed a 15.2-m and a 6-minute walk as fast as the @entity1 deemed safe at 3 months (end of the trial intervention) and 6 and 12 months after entry. The means, standard errors, and quartiles were calculated for the speed used for each task. RESULTS: The mean speed for the 15.2-m walk did not differ from that used for the 6-minute walk at 3 and 6 months but was significantly faster at 12 months. Differences became apparent at each assessment in @entity1 in the highest quartiles (>1.0 m/s) for the 15.2-m walk. Their speed was from 14% to 24% higher than the speed used for the 6-minute walk. CONCLUSION: The speed of the 15.2-m walk as a measure of walking ability compared to the distance walked in 6 minutes may not represent separable domains of mobility. Differences were apparent only in the most highly functional @entity1 , who could ambulate in the community. Any difference in the walking speed used for these 2 tasks does not make enough of a clinical distinction to encourage including both a 6-minute walk and a 15.2-m walk as outcome measures in clinical trials of locomotor interventions for @entity1566 .

Comparison of speeds used for the 15.2-meter and 6-minute walks over the year after an incomplete XXXX : the SCILT Trial.

@entity1566 :: ('MESH:D013119', 'Disease') :: ['Spinal Cord Injury', 'spinal cord injury', 'SCI'] @entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'patient'] @entity54363 :: ('c|SUB|C|5|T', 'DNAMutation') :: ['C-5 to T']
@entity1566 :: (MESH:D013119,Disease) :: ['spinal cord injury']
