Goal Setting with ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) and Multidisciplinary Team Approach in Stroke Rehabilitation

What the hell is this shit? You don't need to know anything other than survivors want 100% recovery.

Goal Setting with ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) and Multidisciplinary Team Approach in Stroke Rehabilitation

    Matilde Leonardi Email author
    Klemens Fheodoroff

    Matilde Leonardi
        1
    Email author
    Klemens Fheodoroff
        2

    1.Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo BestaMilanItaly
    2.Gailtal-KlinikHermagorAustria

Abstract

Stroke-associated impairments display a wide variety of clinical signs and symptoms. Therefore, a multidisciplinary team with different experts working closely together is necessary for effective stroke rehabilitation.(Why? What the fuck is your definition of effective? 10% full recovery? If so you need to be fired.)

In rehabilitation of stroke patients, a holistic view on functioning and disability is necessary to establish an individualized and comprehensive treatment program. The WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) provides a common language to describe individual functioning in a given context suitable for a shared documentation system.

Goal setting has become a central component of effective communication and decision-making in rehabilitation practice, both as part of the process and as a person-centred outcome measure for stroke rehabilitation. Nevertheless, agreed standards on goal setting and evaluation still need to be defined.(The only goal in stroke is 100% recovery. If that is not your goal, GET THE HELL OUT OF STROKE.)

Here, we highlight some aspects with relevance for multidisciplinary team building and coordination and for using the ICF in the context of stroke rehabilitation; how to describe individual levels of functioning and disability and to set treatment goals as well as to identify barriers and facilitators to individual functioning and health.