Physical Therapy Hours Influencing Improvement of Activity of Daily Living in Individuals with Sub-Acute Stroke
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Background: Intensive physical therapy is important for individuals with stroke to improve their movements and abilities to perform activity of daily living (ADL). However, there were no studies investigated the appropriate number of physical therapy hours influencing changes in ADL ability.
Objective: To determine physical therapy hours and factors that could affecting patient’s ability to perform ADL in individuals with sub-acute stroke.
Methods: 283 individuals with sub-acute stroke were collected physical therapy hours and assessed for their ADL and level of disability using the Barthel index (BI) and the modified Rankin scale. The data at admission and 2-months after stroke onset were compared by using Paired t-test and One-way ANOVA. The factors affecting the changes in BI scores were determined by using logistic regression.
Results: The findings found that only the 10-15 physical therapy hours was significantly related with the changed scores of BI in these individuals.
Conclusion: Physical therapy at least 10-15 hours within two months post-stroke onset resulted in the changes in the ADL in individuals with sub-acute stroke.
Keywords: Hours, Physical Therapy, Activity of daily living, Stroke, Sub-acute
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