CHAPTER 39: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE (NIHSS) Description The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a standardized assessment designed to measure stroke severity and is considered…
CHAPTER 38: MOVEMENT DISORDER SOCIETY-UNIFIED PARKINSON’S DISEASE RATING SCALE (MDS-UPDRS) Description The Movement Disorder Society-Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) by Fahn et al. (1987) is a widely used comprehensive…
CHAPTER 37: MODIFIED RANKIN SCALE (MRS) Description The Modified Rankin Scale (MRS) is a quick screen staging tool considered to be a single-item global outcome scale for use with stroke…
CHAPTER 36: HOEHN AND YAHR STAGING SCALE OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE (HY SCALE) Description The Hoehn and Yahr Staging Scale of Parkinson’s Disease (HY scale) by Hoehn and Yahr (1967), is…
CHAPTER 35: WESTERN NEURO SENSORY STIMULATION PROFILE (WNSSP) Description The Western Neuro Sensory Stimulation Profile (WNSSP), by Ansel and Keenan, (1989), was developed to assess cognitive function in severely impaired…
CHAPTER 34: WESSEX HEAD INJURY MATRIX (WHIM) Description The Wessex Head Injury Matrix (WHIM), by Shiel et al. (2000) was developed to assess subjects in and emerging from coma as…
CHAPTER 32: NEUROLOGICAL OUTCOME SCALE FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (NOS-TBI) Description The Neurological Outcome Scale for Traumatic Brain Injury (NOS-TBI) is a standardized assessment tool of neurological function that is…
CHAPTER 31: JFK COMA RECOVERY SCALE-REVISED (CRS-R) Description The JFK Coma Recovery Scale (CRS) by Giacino et al. (1991) is a standardized instrument designed to measure the neurobehavioral function in…
CHAPTER 30: GLASGOW COMA SCALE (GCS) Description The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), by Teasdale and Jennet (1974), is an interactive observation-based tool designed to describe the level of consciousness in…
CHAPTER 28: MONTREAL COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT (MOCA) Description The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), developed by Nasreddine et al., (2005), is an interactive tool developed to detect mild cognitive dysfunction through the…
