Gait Abnormality Rating Scale

Gait Abnormality Rating Scale (GARS)^[1] is a videotape-based analysis of 16 facets of human gait. It has been evaluated as a screening tool to identify patients at risk for injury from falls.^[2] and has been used in remote gait evaluation.^[3] A modified version was published in 1996.^[4]

Gait Abnormality Rating Scale
Purpose	evaluate individuals who are a risk to fall

Scoring and assessment

The scale comprises three categories:^[5]

• five general facets
• four lower extremity facets
• seven trunk, head and upper extremity facets

Each item has a score range from 0 (good function) to 3 (poor function).^[6]

The total GARS score is the sum of the 16 individual facets, and the total score represents a rank ordering of risk for falling, based on the number of gait abnormalities recognized and the severity of any gait abnormality identified.