Reliability of the Five Step Assessment and Its Coefficients of Impairment in Spastic Paresis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the intrarater and interrater reliability of the Five Step Assessment (FSA) and its derived coefficients of impairment in chronic spastic paresis.

Design

Prospective observational study.

Setting

Study of outpatients followed in a rehabilitation department.

Participants

In this single-center prospective study, participants (n=18) with chronic hemiparesis (>1y since injury) were evaluated by 4 raters (3 medical doctors, 1 physiotherapist; experience in hemiparesis, 14±9y).

Interventions

All raters estimated muscle shortening, spasticity, weakness, and fatigability against the resistance of 8 key antagonists in adults twice, one week apart.

Main outcome measures

FSA involves measuring 4 angles: angle of arrest at slow speed of

SUBMITTER: Baude M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12265912 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature