To evaluate functional recovery one year after the onset of stroke
- Author:
Nguyen Van Trieu
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Stroke
- MeSH:
Stroke;
Stroke/rehabilitation
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2005;515(7):53-55
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
337 patients with the first ever strokes were treated at the hospital of Hai Duong province from January 1999 to December 2000. All poststroke patients were evaluated their functional outcome at admission and discharge; 3 months and one year after stroke onset by using the Bathel score. After one year poststroke, 209 patients (62%) were still alive and followed up continuously; 128 patients died (38%). The average Bathel score were 83; 48.3% of patients had independent activities of daily living (ADL). After one year poststroke, the rate of movement function defects in arms was 66.5%; leg function impaired 54.5%; speech disorders 23.2%; bowel incontinent 8.6%. This study confirmed there were the high rate of mortality and decreased ADL in community-living stroke survivors one year after stroke. A high proportion of movement function defects prevents the patients from reintegrating to normal living.
