Rehabilitation: objective assessment of muscle function.
The lack of an appropriate and objective measuring scale or tool has ensured that rehabilitation nurses' assessments of patients' muscle function have tended to be subjective and, arguably, inconsistent. Such inexact methods are no longer acceptable to the increasingly audit-conscious health service and research-oriented nursing profession. The authors introduce a means of completing an objective assessment of patients' muscle function which, they claim, will enable nurses to evaluate the efficacy of current and potential treatment options. In follow-up articles appearing in the next two editions of Nursing Standard, they discuss electrotherapeutic rehabilitation of skeletal muscle function.
Oldham
J
J
Tallis
R
R
Howe
T
T
Petterson
T
T
D006801:Humans; D009132:Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000451:nursing*