Impact of physiotherapy intervention to increase spinal cord independence measure on SCI patients

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the Impact of physiotherapy intervention to increase spinal cord independence measure on SCI patients. Objectives: To assess the impact of physiotherapy intervention to increase spinal cord independence measure on SCI patients and find out about any association between spinal cord independence measure (SCIM) and socio-demographic characteristics. Methods: The study design was cross-sectional. A total of 65 samples were selected conveniently for this study from Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed (CRP) in Bangladesh. Data was collected by using a questionnaire, and the SCIM-III Scale. Descriptive statistics using SPSS software version 20 were used for data analysis. Results: In this study, among 65 participants the mean age of the participants was 31.92±12.730 years. Among them males were predominantly higher than female, males were 86.2%(n=54) and females were about 13.8%(n=9). Majority of the participants were come from rural area 64.6%(n=42) and their monthly family income mean were 10518.08±16223.596. Complete A 72.3%(n=47) was the most common impairment in ASIA grading scale. In this study, the majority of participants 52.3%(n=34) were get admitted within a month after their injury and there have a highly significant (p=0.002) result with the admission date after injury. This study showed that there had a correlation between increasing SCIM score with admission after injury. Conclusion: The results of this study provided more insight into the increase of SCIM of a group of patients with traumatic spinal cord injury. More research is needed to evaluate the rehabilitation program for these patients. Keywords: Physiotherapy intervention, Spinal cord injury, SCIM.

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