OBJECTIVE 1) To evaluate the functional independence measures immediately after discharge from an intensive care unit and to compare these values with the FIMs 30 days after that period. 2) To evaluate the possible associated risk factors. METHODS The present investigation was a prospective cohort study that included individuals who were discharged from the intensive care unit and underwent p...

OBJECTIVE To describe activity limitation of people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy who are living in the community and to correlate it with age and muscle strength. DESIGN Descriptive, correlational. SUBJECTS Twenty-seven children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy aged 7-14 years who are living in the community. METHODS The subjects' activity limitation was evaluated using the Functional...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Identifying clinical data acquired at inpatient rehabilitation admission for stroke that accurately predict key outcomes at discharge could inform the development of customized plans of care to achieve favorable outcomes. The purpose of this analysis was to use a large comprehensive national data set to consider a wide range of clinical elements known at admission to iden...

The purpose of this study was to investigation functional independence and rehabilitation outcomes of traumatic spinal cord patients. The data were obtained for 38 patients with traumatic spinal cord lesions admitted to the physical therapy unit from 1997 to 2001. The mean age was 32 +/- 6.48 years. Functional improvement was presented in terms of progress in independence in six daily activitie...

background: to evaluate the patients with stroke by functional independence measure (fim) scale, at the times of admission to hospital, discharge, and six-month poststroke, and to determine the level of improvement in patients after rehabilitative procedures. methods: a total number of 108 patients with stroke entered the study who were admitted to neurology ward. they all received rehabilitati...

Our aim was to investigate the patterns of functional inputs and outputs from individual barrels in the mouse somatosensory cortex, and to test the hypothesis that individual barrels in layer IV are functionally independent of direct inputs from neighboring barrels. In a mouse in vitro slice preparation of the barrel cortex, we recorded voltage-sensitive dye signals evoked in response to micros...

The functional independence measure (FIM) is used to determine the degree of disability that patients experience and the progress that they make through programs of medical rehabilitation. Rasch analysis is a statistical technique for constructing interval measures from ordinal data that was applied to derive FIM measures. The major factors that are taken into account to produce FIM measures ar...

BACKGROUND physical and cognitive function must be integrated and optimised in performance of daily activities. Age-related loss of physical function can result in poor performance of necessary daily activities and possibly lead to increased dependency and a change of living status. OBJECTIVES (1) to evaluate average differences in physiological, cognitive, and functional performance of older...

OBJECTIVE To determine changes in functional independence following spinal cord injury and to evaluate the association between functional independence and physical capacity. DESIGN Multi-centre prospective cohort study. SUBJECTS Patients with spinal cord injury admitted for initial rehabilitation. METHODS The motor Functional Independence Measure (FIMmotor) was determined at the start of ...

An independent broadcast on a connected graph $G$is a function $f:V(G)to mathbb{N}_0$such that, for every vertex $x$ of $G$, the value $f(x)$ is at most the eccentricity of $x$ in $G$,and $f(x)>0$ implies that $f(y)=0$ for every vertex $y$ of $G$ within distance at most $f(x)$ from $x$.The broadcast independence number $alpha_b(G)$ of $G$is the largest weight $sumlimits_{xin V(G)}f(x)$of an ind...