Prevalence of use of lower limb orthoses by people with spinal cord injury post-rehabilitation
Abstract
Objetivo: to describe the prevalence of use of lower limb orthoses in the daily home of people with spinal cord injury after physical rehabilitation program. Method: quantitative, cross-sectional and descriptive study, developed with 121 individuals with spinal cord injury in a rehabilitation center in southern Brazil, between October 2019 and January 2020. Data were collected through interviews guided by a semi-structured script. They were analyzed in IBM SPSS Statistics 22, with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for normality, and the Pearson Chi-square and Mann-Whitney U tests for statistical analysis. Results: of the 121 individuals with spinal cord injury, 60.3% (n=73) received lower limb orthoses. Of these, 65.7% (n=48) maintained the use of orthoses for three days per week in daily household and 34.2% (n=25) stopped using the orthoses after the rehabilitation program. Conclusion: the low prevalence of use of lower limb orthoses in the home, post-rehabilitation program, can compromise the health and quality of the individual with spinal cord injury, leading to waste of public spending. Thus, it is inferred that the monitoring of these individuals and awareness of the benefits of using them can contribute to the adherence to the use of this assistive technology in daily home post-rehabilitation program.
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