The Study on the Difficulty of the Tests of Gait Disturbance / 日本温泉気候物理医学会雑誌

ABSTRACT

In 61 patients with hemiplegia who were under a rehabilitation program, the grade of gait disturbance of each patient was examined by 6 physical therapists. The examination consisted of observation on 46 kinds of gait or related actions; of which 14 were with a handrail, 16 with a cane and 16 with empty hands. Each rater was requested to rate the patient's performance on the basis of 4 stages impossible, possible with human assistance, possible but not practical, and practical from the standpoint of ADL (activities of daily living). We assigned 1 to the former two cases, whereas 0 to the latter two, respectively.<br>The data collected in this way were analysed by making the cross-table and counting the number of possible tests in each patient and that of possible patients in each test, respectively. By using these results, we rearranged the order of both cases and tests. We found that the rank of this new arrangement of the tests roughly paralleled to that of the difficulty of the tests and could be diverted to be utilized for the scaling of the latter.