Abstract
It is important to address the reasons for assessment before moving forward into areas of treatment. How do we know which areas to encourage our patients to work on unless we know which areas are deficient? It is also important to clarify assessment as separate from treatment. So often we see assessment tests or procedures repeated as treatment activities with little or no reward to the patient. There is also the possibility that the patient will learn the assessment tasks, thereby invalidating the level of improvement seen.
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Assessment
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Hemiplegia — assessment and approach, in Cash’s Textbook of Neurology for Physiotherapists, ch. 10.
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Home visit assessment
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Assessment tests
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Role of computers in assessment
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Thompson, S.B.N., Morgan, M. (1990). Assessment. In: Occupational Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation. Therapy in Practice Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3083-5_2
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