Association between cognitive impairment and motor dysfunction in patients with multiple sclerosis: A cross-sectional study

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作者

Hanadi Alharthi¹ , Muneera Almurdi¹

1. King Saud University

会议/活动

The 6th International Conference on Disability and Rehabilitation, December 2022 (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

海报摘要

While most studies focus on cognitive impairment as a predictor of motor deficits in the neurological diseases, here we studied the association between CI and MD in patients with MS and examined if muscle weakness, incoordination, balance impairment, gait abnormalities, and/or increased fall risk are indicators of CI in patients with MS. In this study, cognitive impairment was assessed using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Scale, muscle strength using a hand-held dynamometer, and balance, gait, and fall risk assessment using the Tinetti scale. Motor coordination was assessed using the timed rapid alternating movement test for the upper extremity and the timed alternate heel-to-knee test for the lower extremity. In summary, CI is significantly associated with motor incoordination, balance impairment, gait abnormality, and increased fall risk. The risk of fall and upper extremity incoordination appeared to be best indicators of CI in patients with MS.

关键词

Multiple sclerosis, Cognitive impairment, Motor dysfunction, Risk of fall

研究领域

Neuroscience

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No competing interests were disclosed.

数据可用性声明

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Copyright © 2023 Alharthi et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.