Abstract
INTRODUCTION: The aim of the study was to assess 12 month changes in upper limb function in patients affected by spinal muscular atrophy type 2 and 3.
METHODS: Longitudinal 12 month data was collected in 114 patients, 60 type 2 and 54 type 3, using the Revised Upper Limb Module.
RESULTS: The 12 month changes ranged between -7 and 9 (mean: -0.41; SD: 2.93). The mean changes were not significantly different between the three spinal muscular atrophy groups (-0.45 in type 2, -0.23 in non-ambulant type 3 and -0.34 in ambulant type 3, p = 0.96) and the relationship between 12 month change and age classes was not significantly different among the three types of SMA patients.
DISCUSSION: Our results confirm that the Module explores a wide range of functional abilities and can be used in ambulant and non-ambulant patients of different ages in conjunction with other functional scales. Muscle Nerve 59:426-430, 2019.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 426-430 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Muscle and Nerve |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2019 |
Keywords
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Algorithms
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Disease Progression
- Female
- Health Status
- Humans
- Longitudinal Studies
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Muscular Atrophy, Spinal/pathology
- Reference Standards
- Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood/pathology
- Upper Extremity/pathology
- Walking
- Young Adult