The Brief Kinesthesia test is feasible and sensitive: a study in stroke.

摘要: BACKGROUND: Clinicians lack a quantitative measure of kinesthetic sense, an important contributor to sensorimotor control the hand and arm. OBJECTIVES: The objective here was determine feasibility administering Brief Kinesthesia Test (BKT) begin validate it by 1) reporting BKT scores from persons with chronic stroke healthy comparison group 2) examining relationship between other valid sensory motor measures. METHOD: Adults mild moderate hemiparesis (N=12) age-, gender-, handedness-matched completed reproducing three targeted reaching movements per vision occluded. OTHER MEASURES: Hand Active Sensation (HASTe), Touch-Test(tm) monofilament aesthesiometer, 6-item Wolf Motor Function (Wolf), Activity Log (MAL), Box Blocks (BBT). A paired t-test compared groups. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients assessed RESULTS: Post-stroke participants performed more poorly on than their contralesional ipsilesional upper extremity. mean difference for extremity 3.7 cm (SE=1.1, t=3.34; p<0.008). score limb strongly correlated MAL-how much (r=0.84, p=0.001), well (r=0.76, p=0.007), (r=0.69, p=0.02), BBT (r=0.77, p=0.006). CONCLUSIONS: feasible administer sensitive differences in accuracy group. With further refinement, may become valuable clinical post-stroke impairment.