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Early detection of non-ambulatory survivors six months after stroke
Esther Duarte1, Ester Marco, Jose M Muniesa
1Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department, Institut Municipal d'Assistència Sanitària (IMAS), Hospitals del Mar i de l'Esperança, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain. eduarte@imas.imim.es
Abstract:
The aim of this study was to evaluate prospectively early predictors for ambulation and motor outcome 6~months after stroke occurrence. Sixty-eight consecutive, first-ever, stroke survivors were prospectively studied from the second week to the sixth month post stroke. Sex, age, stroke type, urinary incontinence, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), and Trunk Control Test (TCT) scores were taken as independent variables. Gait ability and motor functional outcome at 6 months post-stroke were assessed. Age, sex, urinary incontinence, TCT and NIHSS were significantly related to final modified Rankin Scale (mRS), motor portion of the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) and Berg Balance Scale (BBS). Age and early TCT alone accounted for 61.1% of the variance in the motor FIM rating (at 6 months post-stroke). TCT
