The purpose of the study was to study the effect of the motor function improvement in involved upper extremity to independence of activities of daily living in subjects with hemiplegia. The Fugl-Meyer Assessment(FMA) was used too measure the improveme...
The purpose of the study was to study the effect of the motor function improvement in involved upper extremity to independence of activities of daily living in subjects with hemiplegia. The Fugl-Meyer Assessment(FMA) was used too measure the improvement of the involved upper extremity's motor function and the Functional Independence Measure(FIM) was used to measure the independence of ADL.
The subjects of the study were 20 stroke patients who were treated from Nomember, 2002 to April, 2003. Data were analyzed for the Wilcoxonsigned-rank test, the Mann-whitney U test, peaman's who using SPSS/PC+ program.
The result was as follows:
1. the motor function in involved upper extremity and independence of ADL were significantly different after treatment(p<.05)
2. the motor function improvement in involved upper extremity was not significantly related with independence of ADL but with motor FIM and FMA(r=.461).
3. the motor function improvement in involved upper extremity was significantly different by the lesion site and there was no significant difference in sex and the involved side(p>.05)
4. the independence of ADL was not significantly different by the lesion site, sex and the involved side(p>.05)
The results of the study suggested that the lesion site may be a factor to predict and the motor function improvement in involve upper extremity and various occupational therapy program required for the different lesion site