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Dear Friends,
Please find the attachments for different Stroke Scales and Clinical Assessment Tools defined by National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke and American Stroke Association.
Scales and Assessment Tools used right from Acute In-Patient Stage to Chronic Community Rehabilitation Stage.
Cheers for PHYSICAL THERAPY,
Sagar Naik
Website: Physio4all | is an ANGEL at work...
www.therapyprotocols.com
:) 3X for your post
I have The Mini-Mental State Exam scale,from Journal of Psychiatric Research, 12(3): 189-198, 1975.
Thanks for the post...you have helped me out greatly!
that post is really usefull....
thanks alot SagarNaik.....
Do you happen to have a copy of the Fugl-Meyer Test? :) Thank you in advance!
I need some informations about the european stroke scale and its application, in particular: -what does it assess?
- who is the administer?
thank you
Hi Valeria.ci
I understand this scale is limited to hemispheric strokes of the middle cerebral artery. It is purely an impairment-oriented measure (ie body structure/function in the WHO ICF) that covers 14 different functions;not just motor function so probably something for a rehab physician or neurologist to use although a physio could easily carry it out. I don't know anything about the reliability, validity or responsiveness of the measure so you would have to look that up. However I believe it is widely used in europe. Personally I feel it is of rather limited use for physio as it doesn't address activity limitations or participation restrictions and ther is nothing about the impact of stroke on the patient.
Just one comment about this thread generally:
It is important to remember that these measures listed here are just that;they are used to quantify function and while they are an essential part of assessment they are not assessment tools themselves. They do not substitute for well conducted assessment which for the most part is qualitative and much more complex than a measure can ever be. And we should limit ourselves to measuring that which our assessment indicates is the most important things to be measured. In fact too many measures can actually confuse the assessment picture and puts the patient through unnecessary testing. The whole purpose of the assessment is to devise vital and relevant treatment goals that are most likely to be effective, and measurement is mainly for the purpose of assessing progress (although can also be useful for prognosis)
I saw the list of tests for stroke patient, it's wonderful!
I would add: trunk control test, motricity index, catherine bergego scale, scale for contraversive pushing... a beautiful work!