CONCLUSION
Physical therapists can predict future mobility for people
with SCI with a high level of accuracy. This skill is important
because, beyond facilitating appropriate goal planning for mobility
goals to be achieved in therapy, accurate predictions have
implications for effective discharge planning and equipment
prescription. These findings are important because they indicate
that patients, funders, policy makers, and administrators
can have confidence in the ability of physical therapists to
accurately predict patients’ future mobility.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thanks the patients and physiotherapy staff from the
2 Sydney spinal injury units who participated.