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I am a pediatric physiotherapist and I work with children with cerebral palsy.
One of the problems that I've encounterd in my work is: how to objectively asses the quality of a treatment?
It seems to me that all too often we realy on discrete events,
for example wheather the patient is able to perform a task, but without taking into account the quality of performance.
My question is: does anyone know of method that could be used to objectively measure both the progress of therapy
( an the quality of performing a task)?
My idea is to somehow comparing the center of gravity and muscle activity when a patient is performing a task with "normal"
data gathered when healthy people perform the same task.
The difference between this data would then be used to measure the quality of a task and overall progress.
This idea is based on the observation that children with CP have problems with moving their center gravity;
when they do this there muscles react eith abnormal muscle tones. This increases with the difficulty of a task.
I would be greatefull with any pointers tips, ideas that you could offer
Thank you,
Marija
One of the problems that I've encounterd in my work is: how to objectively asses the quality of a treatment?
It seems to me that all too often we realy on discrete events,
for example wheather the patient is able to perform a task, but without taking into account the quality of performance.
My question is: does anyone know of method that could be used to objectively measure both the progress of therapy
( an the quality of performing a task)?
My idea is to somehow comparing the center of gravity and muscle activity when a patient is performing a task with "normal"
data gathered when healthy people perform the same task.
The difference between this data would then be used to measure the quality of a task and overall progress.
This idea is based on the observation that children with CP have problems with moving their center gravity;
when they do this there muscles react eith abnormal muscle tones. This increases with the difficulty of a task.
I would be greatefull with any pointers tips, ideas that you could offer
Thank you,
Marija