Functional Skills After Rehabilitation for Patients with Spinal Cord Injuryt
KINGKAEW PAJAREYA,M.D.*, AREERAT ANANNONTSAK, M.D.** , SUKANY A PAILEEKLEE, M.D.***
Affiliation : * Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700. ** Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkom Hospital, Bangkok 10300, *** Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Phramongkutklao Hospital, Bangkok 10400, Thailand. t This article was presented at the Annual Medical Conference of the Siriraj Hospital in March 1998.
Abstract This follow-up study evaluated the functional skills of 151 spinal cord injury persons after comprehensive in-patient rehabilitation. The mean age of subjects was 34.1 years, consisting of 132 males and 19 females. The results indicated that the level of self-care achieved after re- habilitation was maintained by the majority of rehabilitants. The ability of quadriplegics to eat demonstrated the most deterioration, while the ability of quadriparetics and paraparetics to ambulate significantly improved. However, rehabilitants with complete thoracic cord InJUry were unable to maintain functional ambulation.
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