Deans' stroke musings: Cutoff score of the lower-extremity motor subscale of Fugl-Meyer assessment in chronic stroke survivors: A cross-sectional study

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, January 25, 2020

Cutoff score of the lower-extremity motor subscale of Fugl-Meyer assessment in chronic stroke survivors: A cross-sectional study

The only thing you should have done is create protocols that move survivors from the low mobility function to the high mobility function. This is useless shit.

Cutoff score of the lower-extremity motor subscale of Fugl-Meyer assessment in chronic stroke survivors: A cross-sectional study

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , Volume 100(9) , Pgs. 1782-1787.

NARIC Accession Number: J82458. What's this?
ISSN: 0003-9993.
Author(s): Kwong, Patrick W. H.; Ng, Shamay S. M..
Publication Year: 2019.
Number of Pages: 6.

Abstract:

Study identified an optimal cutoff score for the lower-extremity motor subscale of the Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) to differentiate stroke survivors with high mobility function from those with low mobility function using a data-driven approach. Eighty chronic stroke survivors, recruited from local self-help groups, completed the lower-extremity motor subscale of the FMA (FMA-LE), Berg Balance Scale, 5 times sit-to-stand test, comfortable walking speed, 6-Minute Walk Test, and Timed Up and Go test. K-mean clustering analysis classified 42 stroke survivors in the high mobility function group. The receiver operating characteristic curve showed that FMA-LE can differentiate stroke survivors based on their mobility level (area under the curve, 0.85). An FMA-LE score of 21 of 34 was the best cutoff score (sensitivity: 0.87; specificity: 0.81). This study found that an FMA-LE score of 21 or higher could indicate a high level of mobility function in chronic stroke survivors.
Descriptor Terms: LIMBS, MEASUREMENTS, MOBILITY, MOTOR SKILLS, OUTCOMES, STROKE.

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Citation: Kwong, Patrick W. H., Ng, Shamay S. M.. (2019). Cutoff score of the lower-extremity motor subscale of Fugl-Meyer assessment in chronic stroke survivors: A cross-sectional study. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , 100(9), Pgs. 1782-1787. Retrieved 1/25/2020, from REHABDATA database.