Measuring Neurological Status in Spinal Cord Injury

The objective of this chapter is to describe and evaluate the assessment tools to evaluate neurological status in people with SCI through a systematic review of scientific literature. The systematic review was conducted in line with COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) on Pubmed, Scopus, Cinahl, and Web of Science. After removing duplicates, 3333 papers were screened, and of these 476 were included in this systematic review. Among these, 28 papers were considered for this chapter. Results show 19 assessment tools that evaluate the neurological area in persons with SCI. The most common assessment tools are the Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS) and the Spinal Cord Injury Spasticity Evaluation Tool (SCI-SET).