Effects of Short-term Intensive Rehabilitation in Patients with Ambulatory Spinocerebellar Degeneration:Total Score and Sub-score Change of Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia / The Japanese Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
The Japanese Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
;
: 326-332, 2021.
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in Japanese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-887181
ABSTRACT
Objective:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a four-week short-term intensive rehabilitation on ataxia in patients with ambulatory spinocerebellar degeneration (SCD), using the Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA) total score and sub-score.Methods:This study included 23 SCD patients;we considered those with a SARA gait score of<3 points. Our program included a one-hour training session with individualized instructions and a one-hour self-balance training session. Additionally, occupational or speech-language-hearing therapy was performed for one hour daily. Our program was conducted five days weekly for four weeks. We assessed the SARA total score and sub-score findings immediately, before the first and after the last interventions.Results:The SARA total, gait, stance, and heel-shin scores showed more significant improvement after intervention than before intervention (p<0.05). The other SARA sub-scores were not significantly different between “before and after” interventions.Conclusion:The four-week short-term intensive rehabilitation on ataxia in patients with ambulatory spinocerebellar degeneration improved the SARA total score and ataxia of the trunk and lower limbs.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Language:
Japanese
Journal:
The Japanese Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
Year:
2021
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