About 70% of people post-stroke have upper extremity impairments and 81% have mental
body representations deficits (MBRs), such as body awareness.[1] Yet, the relationship
between body awareness and motor deficits post-stroke is not clear. Current scales
look at either quality of movement[2] or body awareness (in other populations).[3-4]
We designed the “Awareness of Functional Tasks with Arm and Hand in Stroke” (AFAS)
scale for stroke, that assesses both quality of movement (AFAS-M) and body awareness
(AFAS-A). We investigated inter-rater reliability, standard error of measurement (SEM),
minimal detectable change (MDC(95)), and convergent validity in adults with stroke.
We reported on deficits in proprioception (position and movement sense), 2-point discrimination
(2PD) and stereognosis.
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