Functional Evaluation of Patients with Quadriplegia(review)
- VernacularTitle:四肢瘫患者的功能评定
- Author:
Haiqiong KANG
;
Hongjun ZHOU
;
Genlin LIU
;
Ying ZHENG
;
Chunxia HAO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
quadriplegia, activities of daily living, functional evaluation, review
- From:
Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Theory and Practice
2007;13(10):919-920
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
The comprehensive and precise functional evaluation is imperative in finding the disabilities of patients with quadriplegia,and it is the basement of providing appropriate rehabilitation training.The predominant instruments which have been used to evaluate the functional capacity of the quadriplegics include Barthel Index,Functional Independence Measure,Quadriplegia Index of Function,a short-form of Quadriplegia Index of Function Scale and Spinal Cord Independence Measure.The purpose of this article is to introduce the characters of each instrument above in functional evaluation for quadriplegics and the comparison among them.
