Clarification on the scoring of the Mini-BESTest

This letter provides a clarification regarding the scoring method for the Mini-BESTest used in our previous publication1 that compared the Mini-BESTest with the Brief-BESTest. King and Horak2 recently published a letter to the editor that highlighted a discrepancy in how studies were scoring the Mini-BESTest. Many studies were summating the total score from all items (a 32-point scale), whereas the original publication3 summated scores on a 28-point scale that included only the most-affected side for items …