Abstract
Postoperative walking ability, standing test score, the revised version of Hasegawa's Dementia Scale (HDS-R), walking motivation, patient insight into their disease, and the presence of poriomania were all evaluated in patients with femoral neck fracture after surgery. The number of patients was 138 (13 men, 125 women). Mean age of the patients was 83.7 years old. The results of the standing test were divided into three levels. (Good : Both feet press the floor almost equally well, fair : Only the intact foot presses the floor good enough, poor : Neither foot presses the floor adequately and the patient is unable to keep standing) The standing test was performed one day after surgery. As for results, the group of patients that scored“good"in the standing test had significantly better results in their incidence of walking after surgery than the group of patients scoring“other than good". A logistic regression test was performed to evaluate whether the group of the patients with“good"had confounding factors such as age, sex, HDS-R, walking motivation, insight into disease, and poriomania. The results showed that the standing test was a predictor in addition to HDS-R or insight into disease, walking motivation, and poriomania. In conclusion, there was a correlation between standing test score and postoperative walking ability.
