F-2-14-04
WATER ACTIVITY, THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE AND REHABILITATION SCALE:
A CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR AQUATIC EXERCISE
A.J. Cole, M.L. Moschetti, R.A. Eagleson, T.A. Sweeney, L. Martin, L. Rooney, Dept. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Aquatic exercise has become one of the most important techniques for rapid rehabilitation of musculoskeletal, neuromuscular and neurologic deficits. There currently exists no standardized nomenclature for categorizing and grading aquatic exercise activities. This limitation has made it difficult to scientifically analyze the physiological and therapeutic efficacy of these programs.
The Water Activity, Therapeutic Exercise and Rehabilitation Scale is a method of systematically describing and categorizing all aquatic therapeutic exercise activities. The scale has seven categories: 1) support, 2) position, 3) activity, 4) active segment, 5) movement, 6) variables, and 7) level of difficulty. Each category is further subdivided using descriptors that further define the motion and its difficulty.
Over a three-year period, the scale has permitted an accurate means of communication between two geographically separate sites of aquatic rehabilitation in California. In one hundred patients, no miscommunication or misidentification of specific exercises has resulted when the scale was used.
F-2-14-05
MEASUREMENT OF MUSCLE STRENGTH IN SIMULATOR
T. Teranishi, M. Mizuno, E. Saitoh, M. Tanaka, M. Hayakawa, & Y. Kanada
(Fujita Health University, Aichi, Japan)
Muscle strength is one of the most important factors in determining the personal performance level. There exist many instruments for this purpose in clinical situations. We examined normal values and the reliability of "Work Simulator" for clinical standardization, as it is one of the standard machines in rehabilitation medicine.
Subjects were 48 normal young volunteers. Muscle strengths of upper extremities were measured in several tasks according to the standardized method of this machine.
Strong correlations were found between left and right sides of extremities. The reliability demonstrated in the serial studies by the ICC was high enough (0.7-0.9) for clinical use.
