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Rasch Analysis of the Stroke Impact Scale-16
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Results partially support the validity and clinical use of the SIS-16 in subacute stroke clinical settings. Further research is warranted to examine the psychometric properties of the SIS-16 in patients with chronic stroke. What This Article Adds: Our results partially support the use of the SIS-16 in clinical and research settings.PMID:36548001 | DOI:10.5014/ajot.2022.049335
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - December 22, 2022 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Inga Wang Yi-Ching Wang Tzu-Yi Wu Chia-Yeh Chou Ching-Lin Hsieh Source Type: research

What Are Some Risk Factors for Cerebral Palsy?
Discussion The term, cerebral palsy, or CP has gone through many iterations with the first description in 1861 by W.J. Little who described it as “The condition of spastic rigidity of the limbs of newborn children.” The most recent definition is from Rosenbaun et al. in 2007 which states it is “a group of permanent disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain. The motor disorders of cerebral palsy are often accompanied by disturbances of sensation, perception, cog...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - March 9, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news