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Reliability of the Original Brunnstrom Recovery Scale Following Hemiplegia
Author(s) -
SHAH S.K.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
australian occupational therapy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.595
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1440-1630
pISSN - 0045-0766
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1630.1984.tb01473.x
Subject(s) - concordance , reliability (semiconductor) , physical medicine and rehabilitation , rehabilitation , physical therapy , psychology , concordance correlation coefficient , stroke (engine) , medicine , statistics , mathematics , engineering , mechanical engineering , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
Objective evaluation of physical functioning enables occupational therapists to quantify evaluation and re‐evaluation. To this end quantitative aspects oft he original Brunnstrom motor recovery stages were extracted, the procedure standardized, and provided with a numerical score. To establish inter‐rater reliability six assessors were used to assess eighteen adult cerebrovascular patients referred for comprehensive rehabilitation. The six sets of scores yielded correlation coefficient with a range of 0.74 to 0.98 and a highly significant Kendall's coefficients of concordance.