Temporal stability and responsiveness of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment following acquired brain injury.

Objectives: To evaluate the temporal stability and responsiveness of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in acquired brain injury (ABI).

Research Design And Methods: English-speaking adults with stroke or moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury were administered alternate forms of the MoCA (version 1, then 2), 6 weeks apart. Chronic group participants (n = 40) were community-dwelling, at least 1 year post-ABI (mean = 12.

Validity of the walking scale for spinal cord injury and other domains of function in a multicenter clinical trial.

Objective: To demonstrate criterion (concurrent and predictive) and construct validity of the Walking Index for Spinal Cord Injury (WISCI) scale and other walking measures in the Spinal Cord Injury Locomotor Trial (SCILT).

Design: Prospective multicenter clinical trial of a walking intervention for patients with acute traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI). PARTICIPANTS/ METHODS: Body weight-supported treadmill training was compared to overground mobility training in 146 patients with incomplete SCI (C4 to L3) enrolled within 8 weeks of onset and treated for 12 weeks.

Concordance in goal setting between patients with multiple sclerosis and their rehabilitation team.

Objective: To determine the concordance between patients with multiple sclerosis and their clinical team members on the identification of goals for an inpatient rehabilitation stay.

Design: Prospective cohort study of patients admitted for rehabilitation in an adult inpatient neurospinal unit at a Rehabilitation Centre in Ottawa, Canada. Twenty-seven patients (11 men and 16 women, mean age of 45.