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.

This article mainly introduced the basic strategy of rehabilitation of spinal cord injury,including maintaining and improving range of motor(ROM),enhancing the muscle strength,sitting and standing balance training,respiration training,application of splints and aids.The rehabilitation objectives and approaches of each level of spinal cord injuries were also involved.

The complications of spinal cord injury(SCI)affect not only the rehabilitation treatment,but also quality of the patients' living,even threaten to patients' life,including pressure sore,complications of urinary system and respiratory system,deep venous thrombosis,pulmonary embolism,spasm,pain,autonomic dysreflexia,osteoporosis,etc.The prevention and treatment of complications of SCI may be helpful to improve patients' health,and a premise of the rehabilitation.

Objective To investigate the reliability of Assessment of Activities of Daily Living of Chinese Quadriplegics. Methods The scale was administered to 20 patients with quadriplegia twice within one week interval by the same rater, and was administered to the same patients by another rater within 2 days after the first assessment. Results The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) of the test-retest reliability was 0.994 (P<0.01); the ICC of the inter-observer reliability was 0.971 (P<0.01). Conclusion Assessment of Activities of Daily Living of Chinese Quadriplegics is an instrument with high test-retest reliability and inter-observer reliability.

As the manual muscle testing is not sensitive enough to reflect the change of muscle strength, more and more people begin to use isokinetic dynamometry and handheld dynamometer for quantitative tests of muscle strength measurement. This paper briefly introduced the history of clinical approaches of muscle strength measurement, compared the advantages and disadvantages of various quantitative mus-cle strength testing, on which the specific techniques of clinical muscle strength measurement were discussed.

Objective To retrospectively analyze the lower extremity deep vein thrombosis prevention in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). Methods A total of 115 SCI patients in our department from April to May, 2015 were included. The clinical symptoms, lower limb deep vein ultrasonic testing, laboratory examination were collected to analyze the occurrence, prevention measures, the thrombus location and management of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in lower limbs. Results Forty-three patients had thromboprophylaxis in other hospitals before admission, and 105 patients in our department after admission, in which, nine cases were with clinical symptoms in other hospitals and three cases in our department. No pulmonary embolism occurred in them. There was no significant difference in most laboratory index-es between patients with DVT and without DVT in lower limbs (P>0.05). Five patients were with DVT in lower limbs in 43 patients who had thromboprophylaxis, and four cases in 72 patients who did not have thromboprophylaxis. No relationship was found between thrombo-prophylaxis and DVT in lower limbs (χ2=0.663, P=0.415). Five patients were with DVT in lower limbs in 53 patients with complete SCI, and four cases in 59 patients with incomplete SCI. No relationship was found between the severity of SCI and DVT in lower limbs in other hospitals (χ2=0.028, P=0.867). Conclusion DVT in lower limbs could be also occurred in patients who accepted thromboprophylaxis. Labo-ratory indexes are inadequate for the prediction and diagnosis specificity of DVT in lower limbs.

Spinal cord injury(SCI)may result in tetraplegia or paraplegia,which is a great damage to the abilities of patients' daily living.There is no cure of SCI at present,and standard rehabilitation is an effective treatment method of SCI.It will help the SCI patients to develop their remaining function and potential function,prevent all kinds of complications,decrease the incidence of disabilities,improve their quality of life,shorten their stay in hospital and decrease the medical expenditure.The necessary premise of their reentry family and society is to complete the barrier free accessibilities of their housing and occupational training.

Collection of information on lower urinary tract function is very important for the management of individuals with spinal cord lesions. The purpose of the Lower Urinary Tract Function Basic Data Set for Spinal Cord Injury(SCI) individuals is to standardize the collection and reporting of a minimal amount of information on the lower urinary tract in daily practice in accordance with the purpose and vision of the International Spinal Cord Injury Data Sets. By studying and using the International Spinal Cord Injury Lower Urinary Tract Function Basic Data Set, it is helpful to standardize and unify the collection of information on lower urinary tract function of patients with spinal cord injury in our country and afford evidences to the treatment of urinary system.

Objective To explore correlative factors with rehabilitation outcomes in spinal cord injury (SCI). Methods 226 patients were reviewed. Results Rehabilitation outcomes did not correlated with sex, occupation, and education, but correlated with the time of rehabilitation intervention, complications, hospital costs, injury severity and injury segment. Conclusion The time of rehabilitation intervention, complications, hospital costs, injury severity and injury segment are main factors related with rehabilitation outcomes of patients with SCI.

Objective To investigate the effect of combination of baclofen, tizanidine and eperisone on moderate or severe spasticity after spinal cord injury. Methods 18 inpatients with moderate (n=2) or severe (n=16) spasticity after spinal cord injury were treated with combination of 2 or 3 kinds of drugs for 2 months, and followed up for at least 4 months with modified Ashworth scale (MAS). Their blood pressure, blood and urine routine, liver and kidney function were observed. Results Among the 16 cases of severe spasticity (MAS≥3), MAS reduced 3 grades in 3 cases, 2 grades in 12 cases, 1 grade in 1 case, with alleviation of phantom pain. For the cases of moderate spasticity (MAS=2), the MAS reduced 1 grade with alleviation of phantom pain. Slightly drowsiness was observed in 2 cases. No hepatic or renal dysfunctions was found. Conclusion Combination of baclofen, tizanidine and eperisone is effective on moderate or severe spasticity after spinal cord injury with limited side-effects.