CORRELATIONS OF THE FUNCTIONAL DEFICIT, OF THE PAIN, OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE WITH PSYCHO-AFFECTIVE DISORDERS SEEN IN PATIENTSWITH SPINAL CORD INJURY (SCI)
Abstract:
The present paper has the purpose of pointing out the benefits of the complex recovery
programme of the patient who suffered a spinal cord injury and establishing some correlations between
increasing the level of physical and psychological functionality, correlations that would have a
predictive value. Material and method. 80 patients from the Medical Recovery Hospital Băile Felix who
were diagnosed with spinal cord injury were included, and evaluated before and after 6 months of
recovery treatment. For the evaluation, we used the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) scale, the Functional
Independence Measure (FIM) score, the Beck score, the Morris Rosenberg scale, the Health Assessment
Questionnaire - HAQ score. Results and conclusions. The self-esteem evaluated for the patients with
spinal cord injury is directly correlated with the quality of life and the duration of the injury, it drops
proportionally with the increase of the motor deficit and with an increase of pain. The depressive
disorder becomes more severe at the same time with the motor deficit, with the increase of pain and
decreases together with the increase of the quality of life, the increase of the duration of the injury.
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