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Taiwan Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

1999

大腦側化;姿勢缺陷;推倒症候群;姿勢不對稱;cerebral lateralization;postural deficit;pusher syndrome;postural asymmetry

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Reliability Study And Features Of Falling Tendency When Standing In Unilateral Hemispheric Stroke Patients, Ling-Fu Meng, Shi-Dong Jush, Mei-Hsiang Chen Sep 1999

Reliability Study And Features Of Falling Tendency When Standing In Unilateral Hemispheric Stroke Patients, Ling-Fu Meng, Shi-Dong Jush, Mei-Hsiang Chen

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

”Astasia(inability to stand)” is a popular and immediate result after onset from stroke. Health professionals usually label astasia as ”poor” standing performance. However, few studies substantiate the falling tendency of astasia. The result of inability to stand is to fall toward one specific direction; therefore, this study used ”falling direction” as a medium to analyze the falling tendency of astasia. Three major results were found in this study. Firstly, the measurement used in this study to judge falling direction demonstrated good inter-rater reliability. Two raters' kappa value was .89, .88, .87 respectively(each p value < .001). Secondly, while comparing 5 …