Functional testing

✍ Scribed by Dr. Richard T. Moxley III

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 333 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0148-639X
• DOI: 10.1002/mus.880131309

✦ Synopsis

T h e ideal method to document the natural history of a progressive neuromuscular disease should be inexpensive, easy to use in a clinical situation, reproducible, and reflect accurately the course of illness. Functional testing meets these goals to a significant degree. Functional testing can be classified into functional grade and timed functional testing. Both categories of testing can be adapted to a scoring system. This review focuses upon three questions:

From the Neurornuscular Division, University of Rochester Medical Center. Rochester, New York.