Lower extremity position test: A new clinical quantitative assessment tool of proprioception post stroke.

I see very little clinical utility in this except as a lead in to what protocol to use to fix lower limb proprioception. 

Lower extremity position test: A new clinical quantitative assessment tool of proprioception post stroke.

NeuroRehabilitation , Volume 44(4) , Pgs. 479-484.

NARIC Accession Number: J81708.  What's this?
ISSN: 1053-8135.
Author(s): Ofek, Hadas; Alperin, Mordechai; Laufer, Yocheved.
Publication Year: 2019.
Number of Pages: 6.
Abstract: Study developed the Lower-Extremity Position Test (LEPT), a quantitative, inexpensive, and easy to use tool for assessing proprioception of the lower extremity of individuals post-stroke, and examined its test-retest reliability and known-groups validity. Fifty-one post-stroke subjects participated in prospective test-retest assessment. Seated subjects were asked to reproduce 12- or 22-centimeter (cm) distances on a plastic surface, by verbally stopping passive movement of the foot produced by the tester. The deviation from the target point was measured as the mismatch score. The tests were performed one week apart by a single assessor, in physical therapy outpatient clinics. The t-test, intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), and Bland-Altman tests were used to determine known-groups validity by determining leg differences and test-retest reliability. Post-stroke involved foot demonstrated significantly higher mismatch scores then the uninvolved foot did. Good test-retest reliability was demonstrated for the involved leg for both 12-cm and 22-cm distances (ICC = 0.79 and 0.85, respectively). The 95 percent repeatability ranges were leg related. The LEPT is a newly-developed testing tool with good clinical utility, reliable in post-stroke population and has known-group validity (involved versus uninvolved foot).
Descriptor Terms: LIMBS, MEASUREMENTS, OUTCOMES, SENSORY IMPAIRMENTS, STROKE.


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Citation: Ofek, Hadas, Alperin, Mordechai, Laufer, Yocheved. (2019). Lower extremity position test: A new clinical quantitative assessment tool of proprioception post stroke.  NeuroRehabilitation , 44(4), Pgs. 479-484. Retrieved 10/22/2019, from REHABDATA database.