Medical Practices and Rehabilitation

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is the injury of the spinal cord from the foramen magnum to the cauda equina which occurs as a result of compulsion, incision or contusion. The most common causes of SCI in the world are traffic accidents, gunshot injuries, knife injuries, falls and sports injuries. There is a strong relations…

• KADRİYE ÖNEŞ

OBJECTIVE: To adapt the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) for use in Turkey and to assess its validity and reliability. DESIGN: After the translation procedure, reliability was assessed using internal consistency, inter-rater reliability (kappa) and the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). Construct validity…

• AYŞE ADİLE KÜÇÜKDEVECİ

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to conduct the cross-cultural adaptation of Neck Disability Index (NDI) and investigate the validity and reliability of Turkish version in patients with neck pain. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: The NDI is a reliable evaluation instrument for disability but there are no published Tur…

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to conduct the cross-cultural adaptation of Neck Disability Index (NDI) and investigate the validity and reliability of Turkish version in patients with neck pain. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: The NDI is a reliable evaluation instrument for disability but there are no published Tur…

• AYNUR AYŞE KARADUMAN

STUDY DESIGN: The cultural adaptation of Neck Disability Index (NDI), the validity and reliability of Turkish version. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to conduct a study concerning the cultural adaptation of NDI and investigate the validity and reliability of its Turkish version in patients with neck pain. SUMMAR…

STUDY DESIGN: The cultural adaptation of Neck Disability Index (NDI), the validity and reliability of Turkish version. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to conduct a study concerning the cultural adaptation of NDI and investigate the validity and reliability of its Turkish version in patients with neck pain. SUMMAR…

• EMİNE ASLAN TELCİ

PURPOSE: To investigate the test-retest reliability of the 4-meter walk test (4 MWT) and 10-meter walk test (10 MWT) in patients undergoing lower extremity surgery during inpatient rehabilitation. METHOD: In all, 102 patients with total hip arthroplasty (THA), total knee arthroplasty (TKA), lower extremity fracture (L…

• VASFİ AKINCI KARATOSUN

BACKGROUND: Successful use of prostheses after lower-limb amputation (LLA) depends on undergoing physiotherapy and rehabilitation both physically and psychologically. The aim of this systematic literature review is to systematically review the scientific evidence regarding prosthetic rehabilitation and physiotherapy a…

• ÖZLEM ÜLGER
• SEHER EROL ÇELİK

OBJECTIVE: The Neck Disability Index, the Northwick Park Pain Questionnaire, the Copenhagen Neck Functional Disability Scale and the Neck Pain and Disability Scale are widely used scales for assessing neck pain or disability. The aim of this study was to determine the most suitable scale for Turkish patients with neck…

• GONCA KARABULUT

Our objective was to evaluate the relation between age, gender, initial functional, cognitive and motor condition, spasticity, diabetes mellitus, and functional outcome after rehabilitation of stroke patients. Eighty-eight patients who had suffered stroke were administered in this study. Participants were stroke patie…

• EBRU YILMAZ YALÇINKAYA

Stroke is a major, chronically disabling neurological disease, which often radically and permanently changes the lives of the victims. Improvement of motor coordination and the degree of independence achieved in activities of daily living have been the usual criteria used to measure outcome in stroke rehabilitation. T…

• NİLÜFER KUTAY ORDU GÖKKAYA

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to determine the functional differences between total knee arthroplasty (TKA) patients who were treated with supervised physiotherapy or a standardized home program and perform a cost analysis. [Subjects and Methods] Patients who received total knee arthroplasty between January 2009…

• NURAY AKKAYA