Tinetti test

The Tinetti Test (TT), or Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment (POMA), is a common clinical test for assessing a person's static and dynamic balance abilities.^[1] It is named after one of the inventors, Mary Tinetti. The test is in two short sections that contain one examining static balance abilities in a chair and then standing, and the other gait.^[2] The two sections are sometimes used as separate tests.^[3]

Tinetti test
Synonyms	Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment
Purpose	assessing a person's static and dynamic balance abilities.

It has numerous other names, including Tinetti Gait and Balance Examination, Tinetti's Mobility Test, and Tinetti Balance Test; the wide variation in naming, test sections and cut off values sometimes cause confusion.^[4]

See also

• Romberg's test
• Sitting-rising test
• Timed Up and Go test