Validity and Reliability Study of the Muscle Excitability Scale in Spinal Cord Injury Patients

University Hospital, Motol

Status

Completed

Conditions

Spasticity, Muscle

Spinal Cord Injuries

Treatments

Procedure: Manual examination

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04266964

SCI_MES_2019

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to verify validity and reliability of the Muscle excitability scale (MES), which has been developed to access muscle susceptibility to spasms and/or clones as part of spastic motor behavior in spinal cord injured patients.

Full description

The muscle excitability scale (MES) is intended for patients after spinal cord injury. The objective is to evaluate a motor response (muscle spasms or clones) to a sensory or motor stimulus. A sensory stimulus is created by thumb and pointfinger compression of cutaneous tissue on the inside part of the middle thigh and calf. A motor stimulus is created by passive movement of the lower limb to flexion and extension. The MES grades from 0 to 4 reflect the muscle spastic or clonic tendency and the extent of this motor response (from isolated to generalized). Two investigators will examine a spastic motor behavior in 50 chronic SCI subjects using MES, Modificated Ashworth Scale (MAS) and Penn Spasms Frequency Scale (PSFS) to verify the validity and reliability of the MES.

Enrollment

50 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 70 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria