REHABILITATION DIAGNOSIS IN THE PATHOLOGY OF THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM USING CATEGORIES OF THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING

Abstract

The World Health Organization recommends that the International classification Of Functioning (ICF) be used to assess the structure, function, activity and participation of the body. As a rule, the assessment of the state of the body is carried out using scales, but a large number of them does not always allow specialists to understand each other. The creation of a unified system, which will collect various tools for assessing the patient's condition, will provide serious assistance in the work of members of a multidisciplinary team in the process of medical rehabilitation. This will help in the formulation of rehabilitation diagnosis and in more accurate determination of rehabilitation potential. The dimension of a number of generally accepted scales to describe disorders of the musculoskeletal system does not coincide with the categories of ICF. The paper attempts to eliminate this contradiction. When describing a number of disorders that affect the function of the musculoskeletal system and are traditionally used in orthopedics, the category other or not described can be used. In the presented system of evaluation are given equal-weighted scale with the dimension adopted in the ICF. This system can be used as a basis for the preparation of medical rehabilitation programs and evaluation of their effectiveness.