Prediction and stratification of upper limb function and self-care in acute cervical spinal cord injury with the graded redefined assessment of strength, sensibility, and prehension (GRASSP)

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 632-642

  Velstra, Inge Marie ^a   Bolliger, Marc ^b,c   Tanadini, Lorenzo Giuseppe ^b   Baumberger, Michael ^d   Abel, Rainer ^e   Rietman, Johan S ^f   Curt, Armin ^b,c  

^a Clinical Trial Unit Swiss Paraplegic Center Guido A   (Switzerland)

^b BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c European Multicenter Study about Human Spinal Cord Injury ^*  (American Samoa)

^d SWISS PARAPLEGIC RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^e Spinal Cord Unit   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

activities of daily living; ISNCSCI; outcome measures; prediction; spinal cord injury; tetraplegia; upper limb function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN SPINAL INJURY ASSOCIATION IMPAIRMENT SCALE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GRADED REDEFINED ASSESSMENT OF STRENGTH SENSIBILITY AND PREHENSION; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CARE; SENSIBILITY; SPINAL CORD INDEPENDENCE MEASURE; VERY ELDERLY; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ARM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISABILITY; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SELF CARE; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906238592     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968314521695     Document Type: Article

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