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A Physiologically Based Clinical Measure For Spastic Reflexes In Spinal Cord Injury, Ela N. Benz, T. George Hornby, Rita K. Bode, Robert A. Scheidt, Brian D. Schmit
A Physiologically Based Clinical Measure For Spastic Reflexes In Spinal Cord Injury, Ela N. Benz, T. George Hornby, Rita K. Bode, Robert A. Scheidt, Brian D. Schmit
Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications
Objective: To test the validity of the Spinal Cord Assessment Tool for Spastic reflexes (SCATS), a clinical tool intended to rate spastic motor behavior after spinal cord injury (SCI).
Design: By using correlational analyses, the SCATS was validated using concurrent measurements of kinematics and electromyograms and traditional assessments of spasms and spastic hypertonia.
Setting: Research laboratory (kinematics and electromyography) and outpatient medical clinic (traditional measures of spastic hypertonia).
Participants: Eleven people with SCI were used for kinematic and electromyographic measurements. Seventeen people with SCI were used for comparison with other clinical scales.
Interventions: Not applicable. …