Risk factors associated with falls in adult patients after stroke living in the community: Baseline data from a stroke cohort in Brazil

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 220-227

  Pinto, Elen Beatriz ^a,b   Nascimento, Carla ^a,b   Marinho, Camila ^a,b   Oliveira, Ilana ^a,b   Monteiro, Maiana ^a,b   Castro, Mayra ^a,b   Myllane Fernandes, Paula ^a   Ventura, Laís M G B ^a   Maso, Iara ^a,b   Lopes, Antonio Alberto ^a   Oliveira Filho, Jamary ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b ESCOLA BAHIANA DE MEDICINA E SAÚDE PÚBLICA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

cerebrovascular accident; functional capacity; functional mobility; risk of falling; TUG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; BRAIN INJURY; BRAZIL; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODIFIED BARTHEL INDEX; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; RISK FACTOR; STROKE PATIENT; TIMED UP AND GO TEST;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY; FUNCTIONAL MOBILITY; RISK OF FALLING; TUG;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84903689974     PISSN: 10749357     EISSN: 19455119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1310/tscir2101-220     Document Type: Article

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