title: [Golf handicap score is a suitable scale for monitoring rehabilitation after apoplexia cerebri].
abstract: A 67-year-old male was examined nine, 35 and 135 days after stroke using conventional stroke scales, 18 holes of golf, functional MRI (fist closures) and translocator protein imaging of microglial function in the brain using single photon emission computed tomography. The data showed that the over 100-year-old golf handicap scale is better suited for quantifying recovery after stroke than conventional stroke assessment scales, which are prone to ceiling effect. We suggest that rating with golf handicap should be used more widely in stroke research, and we find it tremendously important that these new findings are published before Christmas.
authors.affiliation: per.jensen@nru.dk.
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Meden
authors.forename: Lars V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Knudsen
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Knudsen
authors.forename: Carsten
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Thomsen
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Lars H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Pinborg
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006055:Golf; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D020521:Stroke / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation