Reliability and validity of the International Spinal Cord Injury Basic Pain Data Set items as self-report measures

Development, Validity and Reliability of Sexual Health Measures for Spinal Cord Injured Patients in Iran

Reliability and validity of daily physical activity measures during inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation

OBJECTIVES To assess the test-retest reliability and convergent validity of daily physical activity measures during inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation. DESIGN Observational study. SETTING Two inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation centres. SUBJECTS Participants (n = 106) were recruited from consecutive admissions to rehabilitation. METHODS Physical activity during inpatien...

Reliability and validity of quantitative sensory testing in persons with spinal cord injury and neuropathic pain.

Quantitative sensory testing (QST) has been used to assess neurological function in various chronic pain patient populations. In the present study, we investigated the ability of QST to reliably characterize somatosensory dysfunction in subjects with spinal cord injury (SCI) and neuropathic pain by measuring mechanical, vibration, and thermal detection and pain thresholds. Test-retest reliabili...

development, validity and reliability of sexual health measures for spinal cord injured patients in iran

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Frequency of Phantom Pain among patients with Spinal Cord Injury

Summary: Background: Patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) usually have permanent and often devastating neurologic deficits and disability and pain (1). According to the National Institutes of Health, "among neurological disorders, the cost to society of automotive SCI is exceeded only by the cost of mental retardation"(2). Neurogenic pain constitutes one of the enigmatic clinical sy...