Risk factors associated with falls in adult patients after stroke living in the community: baseline data from a stroke cohort in Brazil.

Conclusions: Patients with poor TUG performance, longer times since stroke onset, and right-hemisphere injury have particularly high fall rates, and TUG cutoff points for fall prediction vary according to cerebral hemisphere.
PMID: 24985389 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - May 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Pinto EB, Nascimento C, Marinho C, Oliveira I, Monteiro M, Castro M, Myllane-Fernandes P, Ventura LM, Maso I, Lopes AA, Oliveira-Filho J Tags: Top Stroke Rehabil Source Type: research