Self-evaluation of walking-track measurement using a Sciatic Function Index

Microsurgery. 1989;10(3):226-35. doi: 10.1002/micr.1920100317.

Abstract

Recovery of function is of prime importance after peripheral nerve injury and repair. This paper describes a method of obtaining and measuring walking-tracks and generating a Sciatic Function Index (SFI) to quantify functional sciatic nerve recovery in the rat. The reader is provided with a series of walking-tracks to measure, analyze and compare to those analyzed by experienced observers.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Data Collection / standards*
  • Education, Medical, Continuing
  • Foot / innervation
  • Foot / pathology
  • Foot / physiopathology
  • Gait*
  • Male
  • Nerve Regeneration*
  • Observer Variation
  • Rats
  • Sciatic Nerve / injuries
  • Sciatic Nerve / physiology*