title: Post-stroke motor and functional evaluations: a clinical correlation using Fugl-Meyer assessment scale, Berg balance scale and Barthel index.
abstract: Stroke is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality. Sequels deriving from this event may lead to motor disability and from mild to severe deficits. In order to better classify sensory-motor dysfunction, balance and ability to perform activities of daily living, quantitative and qualitative evaluation scales have been used.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To correlate the scales Fugl-Meyer assessment scale, Berg balance scale and Barthel index. Twenty subjects with sequel after a single, unilateral stroke in chronic phase (>6 months post ictus) were evaluated for about one hour.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Barthel scale was statistically related to the total motor score of Fugl-Meyer assessment (r=0.597, p=0.005). The lower limb section at Fugl-Meyer had positive correlation with Berg scale (r=0.653, p=0.002) and with the balance section of Fugl-Meyer own scale (r=0.449, p=0.047). Both balance scales were correlated one with other (r=0.555, p=0.011). Statistical divergence appeared when Barthel's Index was correlated with Berg's Scale (r=0.425, p=0.062), and it is not statistically significant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The use of both quantitative and qualitative scales was shown to be a good measuring instrument for the classification of the general clinical performance of the patient, especially when positively related joint evaluations are applied.
authors.affiliation: Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Outpatient Unit, Medical School Hospital, University Hospital-State University of Campinas, Campinas SP, Brazil. rofisio@fcm.unicamp.br
authors.forename: Roberta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.forename: Enio Walker Azevedo
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Cacho
authors.forename: Guilherme
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Borges
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D004856:Postural Balance / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D020521:Stroke / Q000145:classification / Q000503:physiopathology*