What is the ASIA Impairment Scale?

The American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) impairment scale or AIS describes a person’s functional impairment as a result of a SCI. This scale indicates how much sensation a person feels after light touch and a pin prick at multiple points on the body and tests key motions on both sides of the body.

What is the Asia level for a complete injury of the spinal cord?

The extent of spinal cord injury (SCI) is defined by the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) Impairment Scale (modified from the Frankel classification), using the following categories: A = Complete: No sensory or motor function is preserved in sacral segments S4-S5.

What is Asia level?

What is the ASIA Impairment Scale? The American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale is a standardized neurological examination used by the rehabilitation team to assess the sensory and motor levels which were affected by the spinal cord injury.

Is Asia a complete or incomplete?

Motor function is preserved below the neurological level, and more than half of key muscle functions below the single neurological level of injury have a muscle grade less than 3. ASIA D = Motor Incomplete.

How does the ASIA scale work?

The ASIA Impairment Scale assigns the SCI a grade based on its severity. Grades range from A to E, with A being the most severe injury and E being the least severe. Complete sensory or motor function loss below the level of injury. Sensation is preserved below the level of injury, but motor function is lost.

What does Asia D mean?

ASIA D: Incomplete, motor function is preserved below the neurological level of injury, and at least half the key muscles below the injury level have a muscle grade of 3 or more (i.e. joints can be moved against gravity. ASIA E: Normal, motor and sensory functions are normal. ASIA Impairment Scale.

Does ASIA C and D have sensory?

ASIA C/D required to have either voluntary anal contraction OR sensory sacral sparing w/ sparing of motor function more than three levels below motor level; FIM eliminated.

What is Asia exam?

This is a system of tests used to define and describe the extent and severity of a patient’s spinal cord injury and help determine future rehabilitation and recovery needs. It is ideally completed within 72 hours after the initial injury.

What is Asia a paraplegia?

First, instead of no function below the injury level, ASIA A is defined as a person with no motor or sensory function preserved in the sacral segments S4-S5. This definition is clear and unambiguous. ASIA B is essentially identical to Frankel B but adds the requirement of preserved sacral S4-S5 function.