Formulation of Integrated Proprioceptive Screening Scale and Testing of its Sensitivity, Reliability and Validity

Proprioception is the awareness of the body position, orientation, movement and sensation of force. Proprioception is necessary to establish an accurate, efficient and coordinated response of efferent system to the demands of environment. As an evaluation is important to establish the goal of intervention in any patient, so an integrated proprioceptive assessment tool is required to examine proprioception deficit qualitatively and quantitatively. There are no evidences found, regarding an integrated approach of evaluating proprioception. In this study an integrated proprioceptive assessment scale was formulated covering all possible and related proprioceptive testing methods. The mean and SD was taken for each quantitative testing procedure documented and furthermore the test-retest reliability for each new measurement procedure was tested. The sensitivity, validity and the reliability of the scale was examined.