Assessment of Function of a Single Limb after Injury / 法医学杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE@#To explore the method for the objective evaluation of single limb function after in- jury in forensic medical practice.@*METHODS@#The score of activities of daily living (ADL) were graded for a single limb function after injury from 47 cases. All cases were simultaneously evaluated using the different methods including Fugl-Meyer motor function assessment (FMA), weighting, look-up table (LUT). The correlation were compared between ADL and the other three methods.@*RESULTS@#Injured part and the score using the three methods were correlated with ADL score (P < 0.05). The correlation coeffi- cient (|r| value) showed highest using LUT method, and lowest using FMA method.@*CONCLUSION@#The loss function of limb is affected by the injuried parts. The methods of FMA, weighting and LUT show a good accuracy for evaluating the limb function after injury and the correlation presents higher using LUT method.