The Risk of Falls Index for Patients With Neuromuscular Disorders

The FBIndex to Determine the Risk of Falls and Its Translation to Assistive Gait Device Care for Patients With Neuromuscular Disorders

The combination of short quantitatively assessing muscular function and balance in combination with short clinical scores, can be a new valid approach to evaluate the patient risk of fall and help to create a quick checkup test to prescribe an appropriate assistive device.

The primary goal of this project is to provide a short battery of clinical assessments used to determine risk of falling for patients with neuromuscular diseases (NMD) based on correlation between clinical assessments between two groups of NMD patients and scales used to assess risk of falling for patients.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients between 18- and 65-year-old
• Patients with adequate cognitive and communication function to fill out the scales assessing risk of falling
• The neuromuscular disease needs to be confirmed by genetic report and/or disease deepening neurophysiological examination.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients which are not able to perform motoric functional assessments without assistive gait device.