Sunday 17 December 2006

Explanation of Testing

Here's an explanation of the assessment results, this is how I see it. Cardiff said they only measure 1, 2 4 and 5 parameters these days as 3 and 6 was making people sick.
1 = Eyes Open (Visual, somatosensory and Vestibular altogether)
2 = Eyes Closed (Somatosensory and Vestibular)
3 = Eyes Open + Screen Moves (this confuses the eyes) Not done
4 = Eyes Open + Platform moves (this makes the feet unstable) (visual and vestibular - somtosensory removed by moving floor)
5 = Eyes Closed + Platform Moves (vestibular only as visual and somatosensory removed)
6 = Eyes Open + Platform and Screen Moves. Not done

From this the sensory data is calculated (by some equation) to give the readings of each of the 3 balance senses separately and compositely. Matthew vestibular balance for the first visit was zero as he shows -1 on the equilibrium score this is in fact 19 this time.The red bars indicates not within normal ranges, as they move out of the pink the red bar will turn green indicateing normal. I think Dore likes to see these normals really high before finishing treatment or at least 3 test within normal(not quite sure about that).Hope that makes sense.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Your 2nd one is right Lelly, as long as they are in the green and are consistant for 3 consecutive assessments, they are considered to have reached their optimum level of developement.
Leila's never reached 100 in any of hers, she did not have too. Ellie XXX