Feasibility and informativeness of the Patient-Specific Functional Scale with patients with Parkinson's disease.

: The primary purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility and informativeness of the Patient-Specific Functional Scale (PSFS) for identifying activities that persons with Parkinson disease (PD) self-identified as difficult.: Informativeness was investigated by cross-referencing the identified activities with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF), the Movement Disorder Society Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS), and Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39). Twenty-eight individuals with PD (Hoehn & Yahr stage 1-4) completed the PSFS.

Reliability and Validity of Nonradiologic Measures of Forward Flexed Posture in Parkinson Disease.

Objective: To examine the intertester reliability and validity of 5 nonradiologic measures of forward flexed posture in individuals with Parkinson disease (PD).

Design: Cross-sectional observational study.

Setting: University outpatient facility and community centers.