Holden Functional Ambulation Scale provides information
on whether a patient is independent from
ambulation. The system categorizes patients according
to their basic motor skills necessary for functional
ambulation, without assessing the factor of
endurance. It starts from “category-1” as “nonfunctional
ambulator patient” requiring more than one
person for supervision or physical assistance and
goes up to Bcategory-6^ as Bambulator^ describing
a patient ambulating independently on uneven and
level surfaces, stairs, and inclines (Holden et al.
1986).