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The tandem gait test, a measure of postinjury motor performance, has demonstrated clinical utility but is limited by time availability and test uniformity.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title><jats:p>To assess intrasession reliability between tandem gait test trials and determine the number of trials necessary for optimal utility and feasibility in clinical decision-making after concussion.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Design<\/jats:title><jats:p>Cross-sectional study.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Setting<\/jats:title><jats:p>Pediatric sport medicine clinic.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Patients or Other Participants<\/jats:title><jats:p>Adolescent athletes who recently sustained a concussion (n = 44; age = 15.4 \u00b1 1.8 years; 39% females) and were seen for care within 14 days (7.3 \u00b1 3.2 days) of their injury as well as uninjured control participants (n = 73; age = 15.8 \u00b1 1.3 years; 41% females). All individuals completed 3 single-task and 3 dual-task tandem gait trials.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Main Outcome Measure(s)<\/jats:title><jats:p>We collected test completion time and cognitive performance for each trial and calculated Pearson correlation coefficients between trials and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) to determine intrasession reliability. We also compared performance between groups and calculated area under the curve (AUC) values to identify the ability of each trial to distinguish between groups.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Both the concussion and control groups demonstrated high intrasession reliability between tandem gait trials under single- (R \u2265 0.82, ICC \u2265 0.93) and dual- (R \u2265 0.79, ICC \u2265 0.92) task conditions. The greatest group classification values were obtained from the second single-task trial (AUC = 0.89) and first dual-task trial (AUC = 0.83). Test completion time provided excellent between-groups discrimination in single- and dual-task conditions. However, cognitive performance during dual-task trials demonstrated only marginally significant clinical utility (AUC \u2264 0.67).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Tandem gait assessments may only require 2 trials under single-task and 1 trial under dual-task conditions to effectively discriminate between concussion and control groups. 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