PMID: 9640060Jun 26, 1998Paper

Evaluation of the prognostic value of general motor activity for rehabilitation of patients after cerebral stroke

Polski merkuriusz lekarski : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego
Marta Woldańska-Okońska, J Czernicki

Abstract

Following cerebral stroke motor activity of the patient is dependent on the extensiveness of brain ischemia. Evaluation of this activity may be an exponent of brain ischemia extent. It can be used for the determination of predictability of patient survival and results of rehabilitation. Using Mathew and Barthel scales effectiveness of treatment and rehabilitation was evaluated four times during 12-month follow-up in patients of General Motor Activity Clinical Group II i III. The results obtained may be evidence of significant prognostic importance of evaluation of general motor activity of the organism in the initial period of treatment and rehabilitation only, i.e. within 3 months following cerebral stroke. However, it is no importance for evaluation of remote results (one year following cerebral stroke). The evaluation of general activity cannot be used to predict the dynamics of the improvement of neurological and functional status of patients undergoing rehabilitation following cerebral stroke.

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