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PROFILE PD: profile of function and impairment level experience with Parkinson disease--clinimetric properties of a rating scale for physical therapist practice.

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The PROFILE PD is a reliable and valid scale that can be used to quantify alterations in body systems and activity of individuals in early and mid-stages of PD.
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Background and Purpose:Individuals with Parkinson disease (PD) experience a range of deficits of body systems and activities A clinical test is needed that is reliable, valid, applicable to physical therapist practice, and appropriate for use in early and mid-stages of the disease PROFILE PD is on

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Coordination in adults with neurological impairment – A systematic review of uncontrolled manifold studies

TL;DR: UCM can provide reliable and sensitive indicators of altered synergistic control in adults with neurological impairment and the effects of interventions on synergies are determined.
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Stem Cell Therapy for Parkinson’s disease: Are Double-Blind Randomized Control Trials the Best Design for Quantifying Therapy Outcomes?

TL;DR: An argument based on empirical and theoretical grounds that the use of double-blind, placebo controlled trials are not the best approach for testing the efficacy of cellular therapies for Parkinson’s disease is presented and pragmatic RCTs are recommended.
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Selection of clinical outcome measures in rehabilitation of people with movement disorders: theory and practice

TL;DR: This chapter aims to provide an overview of some of the factors that clinicians can consider prior to selecting outcome measures for people with movement disorders, with the use of standardized outcome measures widely recommended by many professional associations.
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Cross cultural adaptations and psychometric domains of Brazilian version of PROFILE PD for Parkinson’s disease

TL;DR: The Brazilian version of PROFILE PD is an instrument reliable, valid, and responsive to physical therapy intervention, that can be used to quantify impairments and limitations in patients with PD and can provide an overall summary of the impact of disease, useful for physiotherapy practice.
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The CES-D Scale: A Self-Report Depression Scale for Research in the General Population

TL;DR: The CES-D scale as discussed by the authors is a short self-report scale designed to measure depressive symptomatology in the general population, which has been used in household interview surveys and in psychiatric settings.
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Intraclass correlations: uses in assessing rater reliability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present guidelines for choosing among six different forms of the intraclass correlation for reliability studies in which n target are rated by k judges, and the confidence intervals for each of the forms are reviewed.
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Parkinsonism: Onset, progression, and mortality

TL;DR: Controversy over the effectiveness of therapeutic measures for parkinsonism is due partially to this wide variability and to the paucity of clinical information about the natural history of the syndrome.
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Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS): scale presentation and clinimetric testing results.

Christopher G. Goetz, +87 more
- 15 Nov 2008 - 
TL;DR: The combined clinimetric results of this study support the validity of the MDS‐UPDRS for rating PD.
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