Abstract
We made the evaluation based on six inhibiting factors for 80 cases of those hospitalized patients (male: 48 female: 32, average age: 65) for three years since November 1978, who had been completely bedridden due to their severe cerebrovascular disorder before we began the rehabilitation.
Severe patients had concurrently several problems such as dyskinesia, lack or loss of the will to recover, communication disorder and/or bladder-rectum disorder, which were major factors in the treatment of our rehabilitation.
The results of our rehabilitation was as follows: remarkable improvement was observed 14% of cases who were able to walk upright, and moderately improved in 22%, a total of 36%. No improvement was seen in 39% as unchanged group, and mildly improved in 25%.
These results suggested that over 80% of patients were able to be transferred and treated in the rehabilitation ward out of bed and that the average bed-leaving time was 16 days.
