Article ID: 11700
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the predictors of basic mobility for acute cerebral infarction (CI) patients at discharge.
Methods: The participants were 259 patients with acute CI registered at 5 hospitals. Patients were evaluated medical characteristics, neurological impairments, balance disorders, and activity of daily living (ADL). Basic mobility which is a dependent variable used the revised version of the ability for basic movement scale (ABMS-II) Multiple regression analysis was used to identify independent variables related to basic mobility.
Results: In multiple regression analysis, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, scale for contraversive pushing, consciousness disorder, recurrence of CI, presence of hemorrhagic infarction, and pre-modified Rankin Scale were identified as predictors of dependent variable.
Conclusions: It was suggested that these indice may predict basic mobility in acute phase and may considered useful to effective programs of physical therapy.
