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The single leg stance test measures a person's ability to balance on one leg. To perform the test, the person stands on one leg with hands on hips while being timed. The test is repeated three times for each leg and the scores are averaged. Norms show that the average time people can balance decreases with increasing age, ranging from 30 seconds for those aged 20-39 to 14 seconds for those aged 70-79. Initial foot position and rehabilitation can impact single leg stance performance.

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Single Leg Stance Test 1

The single leg stance test measures a person's ability to balance on one leg. To perform the test, the person stands on one leg with hands on hips while being timed. The test is repeated three times for each leg and the scores are averaged. Norms show that the average time people can balance decreases with increasing age, ranging from 30 seconds for those aged 20-39 to 14 seconds for those aged 70-79. Initial foot position and rehabilitation can impact single leg stance performance.

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540 S. College Ave.

Suite 160
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19713
Ph: (302) 831-8893
Fax: (302) 831-4468
www.udptclinic.com
Single Leg Stance Test

Description: A measure of the ability to stand on one leg and maintain balance

Equipment: Stopwatch

Patient Instructions: “I am going to time how long you can stand on one leg for each leg, keeping your hands on
your hips. We will randomly pick one leg to start. I will start the clock when your foot lifts off the floor. You may
balance using any method that you like as long as you are on one leg and the other leg is unsupported. I will stop
the clock either when your foot touches the ground, your hands come off your hip, you more your standing foot
or the opposite foot braces against the standing leg.”

Therapist Instructions: The test should, ideally, be performed with the patient’s shoes off. Demonstrate the test
for the patient. Use a coin to determine randomly which leg they will do first each time. Repeat three times for
each leg. Average the scores.

Age Matched Norms:


Single Limb Stance Age in years Mean in seconds
20-29 30.0
30-39 30.0
40-49 29.7 +/- 1.3
50-59 29.4 +/- 2.9
60-69 22.5 +/- 8.6
70-79 14.2 +/- 9.3

Timed single leg stance (SLS) has been correlated with amplitude and speed of sway in people without disease (Billek, 1990). The ability to maintain SLS
generally decreases with increasing age (Bohannon et al, 1985; Ekdahl et al, 1989). Single leg stance has been shown to improve over the course of 6
months of rehabilitation (Judge et al, 1993) and during multi-site FIXCIT trials. Initial foot position affects the ability to stand in single leg stance (Kirby,
Price, and Macleod, 1987). Rossiter and Wolf et al (1995) found that older adults in the community could maintain SLS for 10 sec about 89% of the time
and nursing home residents for 45% of the time.

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