Prediction of Balance After Inpatient Rehabilitation in Stroke Subjects with Severe Balance Alterations at the Admission.

Background: Patients with severe motor alterations would be those on who the prediction of the expected motor response after inpatient rehabilitation programs is most required.

Objectives: To analyze if the balance progress measured by the Berg Balance Scale and the time of hospitalization could be independent predictors of the Berg Balance at the end of a post stroke rehabilitation program in patients with severe balance alteration at the admission. Secondly, to compare a Berg Balance prediction model at the time of discharge based on the Berg Balance at the time of admission (model 1) to a Berg Balance prediction model at the time of discharge based on Berg Balance progress and the time of hospitalization (model 2).

[Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for adult patients with stroke].

It is estimated that two thirds of people who have suffered a stroke have sequels that condition their quality of life. The rehabilitation of the stroke is a complex process, which requires the multidisciplinary approach of specialized professionals (doctors, kinesiologists, nurses, occupational therapists, phonoaudiologists, neuropsychologists and nutritionists). Currently, the practices carried out are a consequence of the combination of evidence and consensus, most of them through international stroke rehabilitation guides.

Walking ability after stroke in patients from Argentina: predictive values of two tests in subjects with subacute hemiplegia.

[Purpose] This study aimed to determine the predictive values of the trunk control test (TCT) and functional ambulation category (FAC) for independent walking up to 6 months post stroke. [Subjects] Twenty-seven subjects with hemiplegia secondary to a unilateral hemisphere stroke were included. [Methods] The protocol was started at 45 days post stroke, with the TCT and FAC as walking predictors.