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Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Translated Title

腦瘤患者與中風患者復健成效之比較

Abstract

The impairment of neurological functions is a common problem in patients with brain tumor, which may further disturb their ability of performing activity of daily living and ambulation. Comprehensive rehabilitation program has been reported to resume the above functions of the patients in this group. The purpose of this study was attempted to compare the functional outcome and cost-effect of rehabilitation between the patients with brain tumor and stroke. The study was a retrospective study and the data was obtained by chart review. Thirty-four patients with brain tumor, admitted in a rehabilitation ward, within a period of 5 years were included in this study. Another 34 stroke patients with the correspondent lesion, age and gender were recruited as controls. Barthel index was measured before and after rehabilitation as an indicator of functional outcome. The duration of admission was recorded in order to compare the efficiency of rehabilitation. The result showed the Barthel index of the patients with brain tumor elevated from 42.6±4.2 to 78.7±4.4 after a 42 days’ rehabilitation training. There were no difference between brain tumor and stroke patients in the duration of admission and progress of Barthel index. We concluded that rehabilitation had great benefit in the ability of performing activity of daily living in patients with brain tumor and its cost-effect was similar as stroke rehabilitation.

Language

Traditional Chinese

First Page

19

Last Page

26

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