-
Clinical rehabilitation · Jun 2002
Measuring perceived activity limitations in lower extremity Complex Regional Pain Syndrome type 1 (CRPS I): test-retest reliability of two questionnaires.
- Roberto S G M Perez, Leo D Roorda, Wouter W A Zuurmond, Ilse I M J Bannink, Jan H Vranken, and Jaap J de Lange.
- Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. rsgm.perez@vumc.nl
- Clin Rehabil. 2002 Jun 1; 16 (4): 454-60.
ObjectiveTo assess the test-retest reliability of two questionnaires for measuring activity limitations in patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome type 1 (CRPS I) of the lower extremity.DesignPatients filled out the Walking Stairs Questionnaire and the Questionnaire Rising and Sitting Down twice during a one-week period.SettingOutpatient pain clinic of a university hospital.PatientsTwenty-one outpatients with CRPS I of the lower extremity.ResultsThe Walking Stairs Questionnaire and the Questionnaire Rising and Sitting Down were reliable in terms of test-retest reliability as expressed by Spearman's r (range 0.79-0.90 and 0.85-0.89 respectively) and the ICC (range 0.78-0.84 and 0.84-0.87 respectively).ConclusionBoth questionnaires form a reliable tool for measuring activity limitations of patients with CRPS I of a lower extremity.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..